Pabos appears several times as a place name near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River on the Gaspe Peninsula, an area occupied at that time by migrant bands of fishermen from the Basque region of southern France who had discovered abundant fish off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. A reasonable assumption is that the stone marked the burial of a Basque man who died during a search for waters leading to the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. This particular search could have been made up the St. Lawrence River to Lake Ontario and into Irondequoit Bay, and on up Irondequoit Creek through Fishers."
SOURCE: VICTOR - The History of a Town; Lewis F. Fisher; 1996.
Pabos appears several times as a place name near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River on the Gaspe Peninsula, an area occupied at that time by migrant bands of fishermen from the Basque region of southern France who had discovered abundant fish off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. A reasonable assumption is that the stone marked the burial of a Basque man who died during a search for waters leading to the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. This particular search could have been made up the St. Lawrence River to Lake Ontario and into Irondequoit Bay, and on up Irondequoit Creek through Fishers."
SOURCE: VICTOR - The History of a Town; Lewis F. Fisher; 1996.
Inscription
Pabos.
A Basque explorer seeking northwest passage. Buried 300 feet east. June 10, 1618.
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