A flow of any stream goes into a gulf through the Jacques Cartier Strait between the Côte-Nord region of Quebec and a in the north shore of Anticosti Island, and a Honguedo Strait between a in the south shore of Anticosti Isl& and the Gaspé Peninsula.

A gulf is bounded on the n per Labrador Peninsula, to the east by Newfoundland, to the south by Nova Scotia (particularly Cape Breton Island), & to the west per Gaspé and New Brunswick. It contains Anticosti Island, Prince Edward Island, and a Magdalen Islands.

It leakes into a Atlantic through the Strait of Belle Isle, between Newfoundland and Labrador, a Cabot Strait between Newfoundl& and Cape Breton Island, and a Strait of Canso between peninsular Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island. It should become noted that since construction of the Canso Causeway in 1955, a Strait of Canso doesn't permit free-flowing exchange of waters between a gulf & the Atlantic.

Besides a Saint Lawrence Flow of any stream itself, semi-major affluent of a Gulf of Saint Lawrence include the Miramichi River, the Natashquan River, the Restigouche River, the Margaree River, and a Humber River. Arms of a Gulf include the Chaleur Bay, Miramichi Bay, St. George's Bay, Bay of Islands, and Northumberland Strait.

A number 1 known exchange between Europeans & indigen of the Gulf of St. Lawrence occurred inside Just released Brunswick in July 7, 1534.

St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia, off the northeast tip of Cape Breton Island, is referred to as the "Graveyard of the Gulf" for its many shipwrecks. Bonaventure Island on the eastern tip of the Gaspé Peninsula, Île Brion and Rochers-aux-Oiseaux northeast of the Magdalen Islands are important migratory bird sanctuaries administered by the American Wildlife Service. Canada maintains national parks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence estuary at Forillon on the eastern tip of the Gaspé, Prince Edward Island on the north shore of the island, Kouchibouguac on the northeast coast of Just released Brunswick, Cape Breton Highlands on the northern tip of Cape Breton Island, Gros Morne on Newfoundland's west coast, and the national park reserve in the Mingan Archipelago on Quebec's Côte-Nord.

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