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Eastmain East Main 
n. See 1929 quote.
See also: West Main Main (def. 1)
- 1689 (1945-1946) Wee judge it necessary that you always keep up that old Factory It being a kind of an Outwork to prevent any inroad of the French upon that part of the East Main.
- 1752 At Cape-Diggs the captain expected more Eskimaux; but none appearing, he conjectured that the Indians from the east-main had cut them off.
- 1808 (1921) A light canoe, well manned and well piloted, may perform the journey from East Main to Tadousac in twenty days.
- 1929 Roughly stated, Eastmain is the west side of the Labrador peninsula and at the same time the east shore of Hudson's Bay. Its extent is from Cape Jones on the south to Hudson's Straits on the north, a distance of between five and six hundred miles.
- 1963 . . . the enhanced value in a period of beaver glut of the martens and other small furs of the Eastmain. . . .
- 1689 (1945-1946) Wee judge it necessary that you always keep up that old Factory It being a kind of an Outwork to prevent any inroad of the French upon that part of the East Main.