page_title: Charles Robin
section_title: Development of Robin & Co.
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Robin / Development of Robin & Co.
caption_attribution_description: English: Print (photomechanical), Lagoon bridge, Paspébiac, Gaspé, QC, about 1910, Ink on paper mounted on card - Collotype - 8.4 x 14.1 cm Français&#160;: Impression (photomécanique), Le barachois, Paspébiac, Gaspésie, QC, vers 1910, Encre sur papier monté sur carton - Phototypie - 8.4 x 14.1 cm
context_page_description: Charles Robin was an entrepreneur from the Isle of Jersey who traded between the maritime region of Canada and the British Isles.
context_section_description: Robin groomed his nephews Philip and James to take over the operation of the company, which remained an important part of the region's economy for the century that followed.  Several export markets mid 18th century for the Charles Robin and Company firm were located at Naples, Civita Vecchia, Cadiz, Oporto, Jersey, Trinidad, Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro.
  The company evolved as late into the 20th century as Robin, Jones and Whitman, with establishments, circa 1940 on the Gaspé Coast in Bonaventure, Paspébiac, Port Daniel (Anse-aux-Gascons), Newport Islands, Newport Point, Pabos, Grande-Rivière, Ste-Thérèse, Anse-à-Beaufils, Percé, Barachois, Malbaie, Gaspé (where there were two stores), Anse-à-Griffon and Rivière-au-Renard.  In New Brunswick there were  locations at Caraquet, Shippegan and Lamèque.  In Nova Scotia, Cheticamp, Inverness, Musquodobit Harbour. On the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River, Magpie River, Thunder River (Rivière-au-Tonnerre), Sheldrake (Port-Cartier), Eskimo Point, Seven Islands (Sept-Iles), Mingan and St John River.
caption: Lagoon bridge in Paspébiac, 1910
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