Cabot Strait

American  

noun

1. a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.

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Example Sentences

Traveling across the Cabot Strait, which links the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the North Atlantic, the Marine Atlantic’s MV Blue Puttees took about seven hours.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

A transmission line now being laid under the Cabot Strait will carry some of the surplus to Nova Scotia, bypassing the French-speaking province.

From Economist • Aug. 15, 2017

We reached the North Sydney port at midnight, put the car in the bowels of the ferry and climbed up to the deck for the six-hour passage across Cabot Strait.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2016

As the old year gave way to the new, that was the feeling of most Canadians from Cabot Strait to Juan de Fuca Strait.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had just completed her six-hour run across Cabot Strait, from North Sidney, eighty-five miles away, and close at hand stood the narrow-gauge train that was to carry her passengers and mails to St. Johns.

From Under the Great Bear by Munroe, Kirk