Usually associated with Newfoundland, this term does occur elsewhere in the Atlantic Provinces and in the Hudson Bay area.
1772  (1792)  I then went over Lower Table to the Droke; where I observed much old slot of deer.
1907  . . . as we stops to look we hear a faint call from a droke o' spruce close by--a' runs up, and there lies Baxter 'most froze.
1934  "Look at the barrens and drokes," said the light-keeper. "Drokes?" "Yes, little stumps of trees. The word is an Old Country one handed down to us by our ancestors."