DCHP-3

Gulf shore

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Quotations

1830
Between Pictou and Truro it is connected with another chain [of hills] . . . running nearly parallel from Tatamagouche on the Gulf-shore to Chignecto Head on the Bay of Fundy. . . .
1832
The French have exclusive occupation of the whole Gulf shore in this part of the province, and although they are good, peaceable subjects, they are the worst of agriculturists.
1963
Hudson's Bay Company men tended to refer specifically to the different regions with which they were concerned rather than to the peninsula as a whole: to the Eastmain (the Hudson Bay and James Bay coast north of Rupert River). . . Ungava . . . Labrador . . . and the Golf Shores (the southern part bordering the Gulf of St. Lawrence).