DCHP-3

New Britain

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the Ungava peninsula, especially the Labrador coast.

Quotations

1748
The South Shore which was named New-Britain by Mr. Hudson, but is now mostly known by the Name of the Labrador Shore, and Terra Corterealis, hath several Inlets along the Coast.
1819
These straits are so called from an island lying on the eastern coast of New Britain, and forming the northern entrance of the River Saint Lawrence from the sea.
1963
When James Clouston referred to the [Ungava] peninsula in his journal of 1819-20 he used the seventeenth-century term, New Britain.