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
Quebec comprised the Valley of the St. Lawrence from the western end of Anticosti Island to the 45th parallel and Lake Nipissing.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
Scarcely had the ill-fated ship passed the island of Anticosti when a dreadful storm overtook her from the west and drove her into the Gulf.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
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