Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gulf of St. Lawrence” in chapter 3 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.:

... baron de St. Castin, a veteran officer of the regiment of Carignan, established a trading fort. Would France, it was said, strengthen its post on the Penobscot, occupy the islands that command the Gulf of St. Lawrence , and send supplies to Newfoundland, she would be sole mistress of the fisheries for cod. Hence the strife with Massachusetts, in which the popular mind was so deeply interested, that, to this day, th...
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