French Shore

American  

noun

Canadian.

1. either of two stretches of coastline inhabited mainly by Francophone Canadians: the W coast of Newfoundland and the SW coast of Nova Scotia between Yarmouth and Digby.

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Example Sentences

I refer to White Bay, a remote district on the so-called French Shore of Newfoundland.

From Extracts from a Journal of a Voyage of Visitation in the "Hawk," 1859 by Feild, Edward

The Black Eagle was to be loaded with salt-cod from the French Shore stages in haste and at any cost.

From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman

"Possibly by the sheriff, who has wanted you for some time in connection with a certain French Shore lobster case that the government is prosecuting."

From Under the Great Bear by Munroe, Kirk

There might––there ought to be––good profit in a cash-trading voyage in a small schooner to the harbours of White Bay and the French Shore.

From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman

Then we got a fair wind, an’ Mad Bill Likely ’lowed he’d make a run for it t’ the northern ports o’ the French Shore.

From Every Man for Himself by Duncan, Norman