DCHP-2

French shore DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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  

• 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.