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Saguenay
[< Cdn F < Algonk.]
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n.
See 1958 quote.
Quotations
1582
[The people of Saguinay doe testifie that vpon their coastes Westwarde there is a sea, the ende whereof is vnknowne vnto them.]
1754
Canada . . . lay to the west of the country to Saguenay (so called from the river which still bears that name) which therefore lay between it and the mouth of the river [St. Lawrence]. . . .
1848
In speaking of the Saguenay, I must not omit to mention its original proprietors, a tribe of Indians . . . known as the Mountaineers.
1958
The Saguenay [is] a term used to designate a vast region in Quebec, extending between 48° N. and 51° N. from the St. Lawrence River to the height of land that constitutes the watershed between Hudson Bay and the St. Lawrence.