Newfoundland and Labrador Travel Guide
In 1840 an American clergyman named Robert Lowell described Newfoundland
as "a monstrous mass of rock and gravel, almost without soil, like a strange thing
from the bottom of the deep, lifted up, suddenly, into sunshine and storm", an apt
evocation of this fearsome island, which is still referred to - by Newfoundlanders and
mainlanders alike - as "The Rock". Its distant position between the Atlantic
Ocean and the Gulf of St Lawrence has fostered a distinctive, inward-looking culture that
has been unfairly caricatured by many Canadians in the stereotype of the dim
"Newfie" - a term coined by servicemen based here in World War II. This ridicule
can be traced to the poverty of the islanders, the impenetrability of their dialect - an
eclectic and versatile mix of Irish and English - and even to their traditional food. Fish
and chips, the favourite dish, is reasonable enough in the eyes of most people, but many
stomachs churn at stand-bys such as cods' tongues, fried bread dough with molasses
("toutons") and seal-flipper pie.
Isolated from the rest of the country, Newfoundland is...more>
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