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
In 1690 an English fleet, under command of Sir William Phipps, sailed to attack Quebec, and in course of time anchored at Anticosti.
From Explorers and Travellers by Greely, Adolphus W.
The one bit of reality in the whole is in the sketch of "Anticosti," where I myself suffered once a very small shipwreck, but of which I retain a very vivid recollection to this hour.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
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