Show antiposti Anti costi island Hast has changed hanged ownership many times roughly in shape of whale antiposti Antl Anti costi now an island appendage to quebec has changed hands many times in its career says the national geographic society last leased in 1926 by a pulp and paper company I 1 it t h has a s a served e arved in reverse order as a pulpwood empire a rich mans social experiment a pirates stronghold and an explorers reward roughly in the shape of 0 a grea great i whale its tall in the st lawrence river and its head in the gull gulf of st lawrence antiposti Antl Anti costi island Is about miles long and averages 35 miles across it is a sportsmans sports mans paradise great forests of spruce bring green down to its ve very ry shores game fish flu fill its streams and flocks of ducks and geese stop off there regularly on flights north and south so con conspicuously placed and accessible Is I 1 it t that for the last years this island has been the scene of mans activities and experiments it has known business booms and colonization schemes that failed it has seen the fashionable chateau life of a french chocolate king and been the haunt of an eccentric charged with being not only a buccaneer but in league with the d evil devil besides in 1534 jacques cartier seeking that mythical short shortcut cut to the east first officially recorded the island and called it ile he de already however basque fishermen familiar with this region from early fishing trips had described it as Ante costa or island before the coast the name which still sticks slightly changed in spelling in 1630 a grateful king louis XIV ot of france presented antiposti Antic Anti costi to the explorer trader louis jollet joliet who with father marquette had sailed the mississippi I 1 and lat later e r explored hudson bay for his country for a decade jollet joliet enjoyed fur and fish trade with nearby indians until he and his wife were made prisoners by sir willi william am phipps raiding party in the current french eng lish conflict tradition says that jollet joliet was eventually exchanged and returned to his island home at any rate during the next century family hers hefts squatters and other claimants disputed its possession |