The Gulf of St. Lawrence and Newfoundland with Newfoundland's so-called 'French Shore' or 'Treaty Shore' highlighted in blue (explained on the map as the area of "The French Fisheries on the Coast of Newfoundland"). Cropped from a map by British map engraver and publisher William Faden issued in 1785 titled "The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish territories according to the treaty of 1784" (the Treaty of Versailles of 1783, ratified in 1784).