Anticosti
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Coleman was on Anticosti for business reasons as well as pleasure.
From Time Magazine Archive
F On failure of Phipps's expedition, 302; on rescue of some men cast ashore on Anticosti, 304.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
This was another lesson to me in life, and one which perhaps I could not have acquired more thoroughly than by a few days on Anticosti.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
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