Newfoundland and Labrador Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
province of Canada
About Newfoundland and Labrador
There are many extraordinary things about Newfoundland: the rugged natural beauty of the place, the extraordinary friendliness and humour of the local people, the traditional culture, and the unique dialect. Newfoundland is fairly lightly populated, but Labrador is extremely sparsely populated. Newfoundland and Labrador had a long history before it joined Canada in 1949. Adventure racer Mats Andersson has described it as a mix of "Patagonia,Sweden,New Zealandand other countries from all around the world." As for the people, everyone talks to everyone; indeed, everyone helps everyone, and everyone knows everyone (people often can tell what part of the island someone is from by their last name). Newfoundlanders pronounce Newfoundland to rhyme with 'understand,' placing emphasis on -LAND, no
Newfoundland and Labrador Travel Guide Sections
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