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French shore 
1 n. 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 coast Petit Nord Treaty Shore
- 1793 [Placentia, and all the parts occupied by the French, were now ceded to the king of Great Britain, in full sovereignty; the French retaining nothing more than a licence to come and go during the fishing season.]
- 1806 (1956) These go sealing in March : then to the N/E of the Island on the French shore.
- 1907 Up there along the French shore the youngsters is born web-footed, and the old folk watch the ebb-tide.
- 1963 The Anglo-French colonial settlement in 1904 ended the regime of the "French Shore" in Newfoundland
2 n. N.S. that part of the coast of the Bay of Fundy lying between Yarmouth and Digby, inhabited almost entirely by Acadian French.
- 1899 "Almost the whole French shore of Digby county," he told the Herald, "is a small edition of St. Pierre."
- 1938 This was done, and eventually six thousand removed, but gradually a considerable number returned to take the oath of allegiance, and their descendants may be found today along what is known as the `French shore ' between Digby and Yarmouth.
- 1793 [Placentia, and all the parts occupied by the French, were now ceded to the king of Great Britain, in full sovereignty; the French retaining nothing more than a licence to come and go during the fishing season.]