cape n [ = projecting headland or promontory].
   1 Proverb cape st mary's willpay for all (1895 Christmas Review 12).
   1937 DEVINE 62 ~ A saying of the large number of fishermen who frequented this favourite fishing ground, including men from Conception Bay, 80 to 100 years ago.
   2 Attrib, comb cape ann: see CAPE ANN.
   cape boat: large fishing boat, rigged fore and aft, used to fish the inshore banks, esp Cape St Mary's grounds, on the south coast.
   1975 BUTLER 56 The larger boats being used [about 1870] were from fifteen tons to about thirty tons... A thirty ton boat would be classed as a three dory boat with a crew of seven men. All those boats would use four six line tubs of trawls. They would fish up the Southern Shore of Placentia Bay to Cape St Mary's and sometimes beyond. The largest of these boats were called Cape boats. 1977 ibid 39 On the island of Iona, the fishermen fished in open fishing boats around the year 1930. A few years earlier they discontinued the use of Cape boats.
   cape race: see CAPE RACE.
   cape shore: (a) the stretch of coast on the east side of Placentia Bay from Point Verde to Cape St Mary's; (b) the east coast of Bonavista Bay, stretching to Cape Bonavista (see 1895, 1919 quots).
   1895 J A Folklore viii, 288 At Bonavista, somewhere down the Cape Shore, there is an immense treasure [said to be buried]. 1910 Nfld Qtly Dec, p. 30 The Cape Shore—in the district of Placentia and St Mary's—has always had the reputation of being an 'eerie' locality. 1919 LENCH 67 The late Joseph Fisher of Cape Shore, was always busy in the service of his Lord and Methodism. 1964 Evening Telegram 25 Sep, p. 6 If the people of Cape Shore, Colinet, Salmonier and Placentia area would organize and present petitions to their respective members, as people from other areas do, then the government ... might consider that this road needs to be paved. 1974 MANNION 19 The migration to the Cape Shore was but a small part of the wave of southern Irish immigration that reached the shores of the Avalon during the first two decades of the nineteenth century.

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