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Charles Robin-Collas and Company (CRC&C) was a fishing enterprise formed in 1886 that operated several fishing stations in Cape Breton and the Gaspé region, exporting fish to Europe, the Caribbean, New England, and South America in one of the largest global trade networks of the 19th century. The late 19th century marks a crucial transition in the company’s history characterized by technological innovation and the shift from a merchant-credit system to a cash economy. This article examines CRC&C letterbooks, which reveal the centrality of ecological circumstances and fishers’ agency in the company’s daily operations and in processes of social and economic change.Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the author(s), with Acadiensis being granted a non-exclusive licence to each and every right in the work throughout the world. After publication of the work, the author(s) shall have the right to self-archive the work and to reprint the work in whole or in part in books authored by or edited by the author(s) without the payment of any fee. In these other formats, however, the author or authors are required to acknowledge the original publication of the work in the pages of the journal. In the case of any requests to reprint the work, Acadiensis will require a standard permission fee -- to be divided equally between the journal and the author. In the event that such requests are received by the author(s), the author(s) shall direct such requests to the journal.