Archive documents tell us that one of the first settlers to occupy land beyond the bay of Saint-Paul, Gilles Launay, was granted an official concession in 1668, described as a "large area from the Boucan des Canots to the Cap Saint-Gilles". A 1705 census records his habitation at the Pointe de Boucan-Canot as "a house and a canton of unfarmed land near the Rivière de Saint-Gilles for the raising of animals". In 1709, another census recorded a sizeable livestock farm with fifty head of cattle and two hundred and thirty kids on the same property, then managed by Anne Caze, widow of Gilles Launay. The site at Cap Champagne corresponds to the remains of this property.