194:, but were ignored by Hocquart. From November 1740 to September 1741 Lafontaine was interim lieutenant general at Montreal for civil and criminal affairs in the royal jurisdiction. He made a second marriage on 7 August 1751 to Geneviève Lambert, who gave him three children. His business affairs expanded to include land on the côte Saint-Jean, a whale-fishing concession at a place named Apetépy on the Labrador coast and a sawmill on the
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91:(now Quebec) such as trading with the Indians and hunting seals and whales. He became involved in various disputes and earned a reputation for being untrustworthy, but was supported by the governor of the colony. He went bankrupt in 1754, a few year before the British captured Quebec in the
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to cover his losses and the partnership was dissolved. Lafontaine thought he could succeed on his own, and in 1733 leased Mingan from Bissot, then in 1734 broke the lease so he could exploit a valuable concession that
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Lafontaine became involved in various property disputes and controversies concerning his trade with the
Indians and the rights to trap seals in the waters between Mingan on the mainland and the islands of the
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