The Headland of Point Riche is located near the community of Port au Choix on the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Point Riche to Cape Bonavista was the northernmost defining point on the Newfoundland coastline, where the French could fish around the coast of Newfoundland, an area called the French Shore.
[1][2] The French fishing rights were first defined in the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
This area had been frequented by fishermen from Brittany since the early 16th century.
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