Cabot Strait
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The first stage—a 70-mile-long cable beneath the Cabot Strait between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia—seemed the easiest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Traveling across the Cabot Strait, which links the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the North Atlantic, the Marine Atlantic’s MV Blue Puttees took about seven hours.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022
A transmission line now being laid under the Cabot Strait will carry some of the surplus to Nova Scotia, bypassing the French-speaking province.
From Economist • Aug. 15, 2017
We reached the North Sydney port at midnight, put the car in the bowels of the ferry and climbed up to the deck for the six-hour passage across Cabot Strait.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2016
He had lost many hands from sickness during a particularly cold season, and he was not enterprising enough to start cruising round Cabot Strait before the month of May.
From The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by Wood, William Charles Henry
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