Chaleur Bay

American  

[shuh-loor, -lur] / ʃəˈlʊər, -ˈlɜr /

noun

1. an inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence between NE New Brunswick and SE Quebec, in SE Canada: rich fishing ground. About 85 miles (135 km) long; 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.

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Example Sentences

In the summer of 1937 two young British paleontologists were scouring the cliffs of Chaleur Bay along the southern shore of the windswept Gaspé Peninsula in eastern Canada.

From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2020

But although paleontologists came from all over Europe and America to collect fossils from the cliffs of Chaleur Bay, an area now designated Miguasha National Park, no one collected a new specimen of Elpistostege.

From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2020

Sandwiched between the St. Lawrence River and Chaleur Bay, the Gaspé holds some of Quebec’s most impressive peaks.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2013

It was off Cape Cod, and not in Chaleur Bay, that the wreck was deserted; and the desertion was in this wise: It was in the night that the wreck was discovered.

From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane

But in 1761 the British raided a settlement of the marauders on Chaleur Bay, and took three hundred and fifty prisoners to Halifax.

From The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline by Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir