Northumberland Strait

I recently had the opportunity to head out to New Brunswick--"THE 'Picture Province'"--on business, and I managed to extend the trip by a couple of days so that I could continue east towards the Northumberland Strait, the Atlantic Ocean, and the bounty of "The Garden Province," Prince Edward Island.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

I recently had the opportunity to head out to New Brunswick--"THE 'Picture Province'"--on business, and I managed to extend the trip by a couple of days so that I could continue east towards the Northumberland Strait, the Atlantic Ocean, and the bounty of "The Garden Province," Prince Edward Island.

Field notes: NB/PEI/QC 2009

Northumberland Strait, at great hazard, where it is only nine miles wide, conveying the English mail; but sometimes all the circumstances are not favourable, and the letters are delayed for a month — the poor islanders being locked meanwhile in their icebound prison, ignorant of the events which may be convulsing the world.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

We were five hours in crossing Northumberland Strait — five hours of the greatest possible discomfort.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Town, Prince Edward Island, is sixty miles, and by this route, through Nova Scotia and across Northumberland Strait, the English mail is transmitted once a fortnight.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Province in eastern Canada in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean, separated by the Northumberland Strait from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, with which it makes up the Maritime Provinces; Canada’s smallest province.

Prince Edward Island 2002

I took a train to Moncton, then a ferry that crossed Northumberland Strait to Borden, where Daddy met the boat.

Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

At last we approach the precincts of Northumberland Strait, and are cleverly carried into New Glasgow.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

We were five hours in crossing Northumberland Strait -- five hours of the greatest possible discomfort.

The Englishwoman in America 1867

Northumberland Strait, at great hazard, where it is only nine miles wide, conveying the English mail; but sometimes all the circumstances are not favourable, and the letters are delayed for a month -- the poor islanders being locked meanwhile in their icebound prison, ignorant of the events which may be convulsing the world.

The Englishwoman in America 1867