salmonier n also salmoneer DC ~ (Nfld: 1770). A commercial salmon fisherman; freq in place-names.
[1723 (1971) SEARY 82 John Masters and Phill Wattson are to be allowed to prosecute their salmon fishery on Great and Little Salmonier ... Rivers.] [1766] 1971 BANKS 140 We were told by the Old Salmoneer that there were Owls there as big as Turkies. [1770] 1792 CARTWRIGHT i, 14 When the salmoniers visited their nets this morning. they found that the Indians had stolen one fleet. 1951 Nfld & Lab Pilot i. 107 No. 13 black can buoy is moored close north-north-westward of Salmonier point, about half a mile south-westward of Travers Cove point. Salmonier cove is situated between these two points.
