DCHP-3

Treaty Shore

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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that part of the Newfoundland coast, since 1783 from Cape St. John northward on the east and the entire west coast down to Cape Ray, where by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 the French were granted fishery and shore-drying rights, an arrangement that lasted until 1904.

See: French shore(def. 1)

Quotations

1920
North of it is called the French or Treaty Shore, or as the French themselves much more quaintly named it, "Le Petit Nord."