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Notre Dame Bay
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English
Etymology
en fr baie Notre-Dame Our Lady Bay, itself possibly a calque of an earlier en pt - name.en William Baillie Hamilton 1996 Notre Dame Bay Place Names of Atlantic Canada Toronto, Ont. w:University of Toronto Press 239 https://archive.org/details/placenamesofatla0000hami/page/239/mode/1up 2 0-8020-0471-7 Although the name, translated as ‘Our Lady Bay,’ would appear to be French, it may be even older than the arrival in Newfoundland of Breton and Norman fishermen. Notre Dame Bay is thus possibly a French translation of an earlier Portuguese place name.
Proper noun
Notre Dame Bay
en large bay on the north coast of isl/Newfoundland p/Newfoundland and Labrador c/Canada.
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