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partnership failed to discover the treasure. Storm repeatedly tried to get the group together, but they continuously failed to show up for the search. As years passed by, he grew tired of waiting and decided to continue the search with new partners, but did not properly end the earlier partnership through proper legal channels. Storm formed a new partnership with two new members, who were successful in finding the treasure. The legal matter proceeded through the Nova Scotia
Supreme Court, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal and finally the
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255:. The Supreme Court of Canada, in handing down its decision, found the lower courts had been in error in several regards in arriving at their decisions and concluded Storm "was in clear breach of the Partnership Act and the partnership agreement". The Supreme Court of Canada was not in position to fix completely the errors made in the lower courts, however, and Storm received a majority of the treasure.
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On April 7, 1966, an action was commenced in the Nova Scotia
Supreme Court for an accounting among partners who had executed a partnership agreement with Alex Storm in 1961 for the expressed purpose of recovering the treasure. The agreement allowed for Storm to receive 20%. The problem was that this
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had a "keel of 135 feet (41 m), a width of 31 feet (9.4 m), and a draft of 15 feet (4.6 m)", and displaced 540, 600 or 650 tons. It was armed with "twenty 12-pounder cannons along the lower gun deck and two more in the stern. Twenty-two 6-pounders mounted on the upper deck completed a
139:), making several trips. Nearing the end of her last voyage, a storm blew her onto some rocks on August 27, 1725. She sank, with the loss of all aboard; estimates range as high as 316 dead. In 1965, Alex Storm and his associates located the wreckage near Chameau Rock, and recovered a treasure of
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From 1719 to 1725, she carried cargo, passengers, and funds from France to the French colony in North
America and returned with passengers and cargo such as wood, wood tar, and beaver pelts. Between 1720 and 1724, she was "commanded successively by de Voutron, de Lamirande, de Beauharnois and
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on her final voyage in July 1725, under the command of Jean de Saint James. Aboard was a large quantity of gold, silver and copper coins; and dignitaries de Chazel, the new
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