Show 0 r v i. i tit I I Two Islands Remnant or of f French Colonial Empire and anil a The French colony of St. St Pierre Miquelon con consists of two l Islands 9 lying of const southern tE ten n miles off the time Newfoundland t jo Together they h have ne nn tin area aien of or less than TOO square miles anti and are time the sole remnant of the grent great French colonial empire In North America Amer Arner- correspondent In the tIle Chicago Chi Chi- lea ica notes n a cago engo Tribune At t the time beginning of the Eighteenth century France FIance was in control o of North colonies col eel e except for the English onles onies along alon th the Atlantic seaboard and th time the Spanish settlements In Florida a andin and iii in tile the the region reaching so south th and w west st attempted at nt from rC Texas Temas ng When the French of at forts from tempted to build a line Hue Pre now Erie Pa to the time navigable navi nn of the time Ohio river r In Pennsylvania I Penn Penn- cnn gable n hIe waters Va sylvania the En English moved a against them and started Unknown n In American history as ns the tile French and ond L c tt pj Indian war nr i. i me LIC lC n Ul n mm u- u this disturbance stripped France of ot Its American po possessions ses ions leaving it th the Islands Is is- lands of or St. St Pierre and anel Miquelon as a n fishing station At that time there were tin three Islands Great Miquelon Little Miquelon or lade and StPierre St St. Pierre but hut since 1783 the hn have ve been connected by a mud bank England has hns taken talen the time Islands three times since the end of at the time French and Indian war but France has hos been In undisputed possession since 1814 Their lI usefulness ns as a fishing station n has Inns gradually diminished but at at atone one time they the were in a fair why way to become the worlds world's greatest smuggling station This was checked to a n great grent extent exten when the time British government placed a consular agent on the Islands |