Anticosti
Americannoun
noun
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Fifty miles from the nearest telephone and 40 times that far from his office, Businessman Sheldon Coleman, 65, last week happily cast for salmon in the upper Jupiter River of eastern Canada's Anticosti Island.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coleman was on Anticosti for business reasons as well as pleasure.
From Time Magazine Archive
N. B., thence to Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence where bad weather disposed of a tentative plan to reach London in five days via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Edinburgh.
From Time Magazine Archive
"If this lasts, we shall have a glorious run," said Mr. Collins, laying down his knife and fork at dinner, "and shall most likely get clear of Anticosti before morning."
From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. by Susanna Moodie
This time Cartier coasted along the north shore of the Gulf; and to a bay opposite Anticosti he gave the name of St. Lawrence, upon whose festival day it was discovered.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
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