CHOCOLATE-MAKER "KING."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1890, 27 October 1913, Page 7

CHOCOLATE-MAKER "KING."

DEATH OF THE RULER OP . ANTICOSTI. . The death was recently announced in Paris of M. Henri Menier the well-1 known chocolato' manufacturer Apart from ! hi3 world-known business, M. Menier was known as the. man who Bought the island of Anticosti, in tho Gulf of St. 'Lawrence, Canada, and whose autocratlo methods there brought him into ooniliot with' tho British Government. • Having acquired the island in 1896, M. Menier refused to recognise tho Canadian authorities' or anybody elso._ His dliief object was to make the island tho bigco3fc private game preserve in tho world. He had it stocked with reddeer, carriboo, moose, boavors, and specimens of the American fox, and ho cultivated the fisheries. The population of' the island, when ho bought it fr o * l ? an English syndicate, was only about a' 'hundred. M. Menier induced a nljmbor of his countrymen, to sottlo on tho island, and over tho inliabitf.rts ho ruled as a monarch. Alcohol, for instance, was banished from the island. Canada resented the little French autocracy so closo to its and demands were made for expropriation on the ground of tho danger of M. Menier 9 occupation to British interests. M. Monier had two steamers to protect the island and its fisheries.