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West Shore 
that part of the Newfoundland coast, since 1783 from Cape St. John northward on the east and the entire west coast down to Cape Ray, where by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 the French were granted fishery and shore-drying rights, an arrangement that lasted until 1904.
See also: French shore (def. 1)
- 1841 The West Shore . . . is not liable to fogs nearly so much as the S.E. and S., where they are not only exceedingly dense, but may continue for weeks together.
- 1841 The West Shore . . . is not liable to fogs nearly so much as the S.E. and S., where they are not only exceedingly dense, but may continue for weeks together.