Chaleur Bay

[ shuh-loor, -lur ]

noun

1. an inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence between NE New Brunswick and SE Quebec, in SE Canada: rich fishing ground. About 85 miles (135 km) long; 15–25 miles (24–40 km) wide.

Example Sentences

But although paleontologists came from all over Europe and America to collect fossils from the cliffs of Chaleur Bay, an area now designated Miguasha National Park, no one collected a new specimen of Elpistostege.

From Scientific American

In the summer of 1937 two young British paleontologists were scouring the cliffs of Chaleur Bay along the southern shore of the windswept Gaspé Peninsula in eastern Canada.

From Scientific American

Sandwiched between the St. Lawrence River and Chaleur Bay, the Gaspé holds some of Quebec’s most impressive peaks.

From New York Times

It was off Cape Cod, and not in Chaleur Bay, that the wreck was deserted; and the desertion was in this wise: It was in the night that the wreck was discovered.

From Project Gutenberg

Following the coast of New Brunswick northward he was greatly disappointed to discover Chaleur Bay was not a strait.

From Project Gutenberg