Acadiensis, Volumes 8-9Department of History, University of New Brunswick., 1978 - Atlantic Provinces Journal of the history of the Atlantic region. |
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By 1840 their dominance in shipping had turned the Bay of Fundy into a St. John lake and their location had made the entire St. John Valley a satrapy of the city . Their greatest concerns were the development of transportation ...
By 1840 their dominance in shipping had turned the Bay of Fundy into a St. John lake and their location had made the entire St. John Valley a satrapy of the city . Their greatest concerns were the development of transportation ...
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They are like mountain lakes , and yet the water is salt , and so deep ( from 200 to 500 feet ) that ships and great black ocean steamers ... Great Bras d'Or Lake , with the West and the East bays , is about 40 miles long by 20 broad .
They are like mountain lakes , and yet the water is salt , and so deep ( from 200 to 500 feet ) that ships and great black ocean steamers ... Great Bras d'Or Lake , with the West and the East bays , is about 40 miles long by 20 broad .
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We set out now on the last stretch of our walk to Whycocomah , on the Bras d'Or lakes . ... gleamed with seething white - caps ; the place seemed a Highland lake in a storm , a place fit for these Scotchmen banished to the New World .
We set out now on the last stretch of our walk to Whycocomah , on the Bras d'Or lakes . ... gleamed with seething white - caps ; the place seemed a Highland lake in a storm , a place fit for these Scotchmen banished to the New World .
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