Northumberland Strait
Americannoun
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Immediately announcing his candidacy, Mulroney moved his family from Montreal into a three-bedroom log cabin in Northumberland Strait, Nova Scotia, and forswore his Gucci shoes and expensive suits for moccasins and old sweaters.
From Time Magazine Archive
The islands and reefs which front its northeast side form the western side of Northumberland Strait.
From The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient by Murat Halstead
The distance from Pictou to Charlotte Town, Prince Edward Island, is sixty miles, and by this route, through Nova Scotia and across Northumberland Strait, the English mail is transmitted once a fortnight.
From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
They had thus crossed Northumberland Strait, which separates the island from the mainland.
From The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier by George McKinnon Wrong
At spring tides the water in the Bay of Fundy is 19 ft. higher than it is in Bay Verte, in Northumberland Strait, only 15 m. distant.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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