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Newfoundland English in Canada is a notable exception.
* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
In the four Atlantic provinces ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador ), the reception of English law was automatic, under the principle set out by Blackstone relating to settled colonies.
While Maritimers are predominantly of west European heritage ( Scottish, Irish, English, and Acadian ), immigration to Industrial Cape Breton during the heyday of coal mining and steel manufacturing brought people from eastern Europe as well as from Newfoundland.
An example of a nonstandard English dialect is Southern American English or Newfoundland English.
* 1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
Newfoundland English is a name for several accents and dialects thereof the English found in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The dialects that comprise Newfoundland English developed because of Newfoundland's history as well as its geography.
Historically, Newfoundland English was first recognized as a separate dialect by the late 18th century when George Cartwright published a glossary of Newfoundland words.
Newfoundland English is often humorously called Newfinese.
Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").
Other marked characteristics of Newfoundland English include the loss of dental fricatives ( voiced and voiceless th sounds ) in many varieties of the dialect ( as in many other nonstandard varieties of English ); they are usually replaced with the closest voiced or voiceless alveolar stop ( t or d ).

Newfoundland and lacks
Harvey's also currently lacks a presence in Newfoundland and Labrador, where the only two locations closed no later than late 1990s.

Newfoundland and Canadian
* 1942 – Brian Peckford, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Newfoundland
Only CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK are currently in common use, although four radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador retained call letters beginning with VO when Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation in 1949.
Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.
Cranberries are a major commercial crop in the U. S. states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin, as well as in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Quebec.
The Canadian Senate is structured along regional lines, giving an equal number of seats ( 24 ) to the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec, and western Canada, in addition to the later entry of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the three territories.
* 2001 – The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
* 1900 – Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland ( d. 1991 )
Canadian fiddling, including Newfoundland fiddle player Patrick Moran ( musician ) | Patrick Moran
That same year, Alexander oversaw the admission of the British crown colony of Newfoundland into Canadian Confederation and toured the new province that summer.
To this day, Montserrat is the only country or territory in the world, apart from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Canadian province of Newfoundland to observe a public holiday on St Patrick's Day.
* Saint Patrick's Day, a public holiday in Ireland, Montserrat and the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, widely celebrated elsewhere in North America and worldwide.
* 1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
* Guy Fawkes Night ( United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador ), and its related observances:
The list of divergent words becomes longer if considering regional Canadian dialects, especially as spoken in the Atlantic provinces ( gasoline is still called petrol in Newfoundland ) and parts of Vancouver Island where significant pockets of British culture still remain.
To non-Newfoundlanders, speakers of Newfoundland English may seem to speak faster than speakers of General Canadian.
The greatest distinction between Newfoundland English and General Canadian English is its vocabulary.
Pride in Newfoundland language and culture has also encouraged a conscious retention of some obvious Newfoundlandisms, however, and speakers can often be observed switching between standard Canadian English for formal settings and language closer to Newfoundland English for personal communication.

Newfoundland and raising
* Rogers TV in Newfoundland and Labrador also supports local charities by holding bi-annual telethons to assist in raising funds.

Newfoundland and .
A Newfoundland sat solemnly beside a doghouse half his size.
hear that Patricia Murphy flies up to St. John's Newfoundland, next Sunday to attend the government's special ceremonies at Memorial University honoring distinguished sons and daughters of the island province.
Miss Murphy was born in Placentia, Newfoundland.
The pass starts from just north-east of the Island of Newfoundland and Labrador | Newfoundland over the North Atlantic Ocean to central Africa, over South Sudan.
The cold water currents contribute to heavy fog off the coast of eastern Canada ( the Grand Banks of Newfoundland area ) and Africa's north-western coast.
* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.
* Later in 1919, a British aeroplane piloted by Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight, from Newfoundland to Ireland.
* 1980 – Terry Fox begins his " Marathon of Hope " at St. John's, Newfoundland.
* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
* 1932 – Dominion of Newfoundland: 10, 000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
Clark recounted experiences fishing on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, in a vessel out of Provincetown, Mass.
It is also the first known European record ( in chapter 38 ) that mentions Vinland ( Winland ) island ( insula ), a land centuries later possibly identified as Newfoundland, Canada, North America, as well as dog-headed people in Scandinavia.
He was also credited as one of the discoverers of the Newfoundland fisheries.
A complete map was published in 2009 ( Flood, et al., 2009 ) using these previous results with high quality mapping obtained in 2006 ( by researchers at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada who are project partners in this study.
The practice of bedecking the May Bush / Dos Bhealtaine with flowers, ribbons, garlands and coloured egg shells is found among the Gaelic diaspora, most notably in Newfoundland, and in some Easter traditions on the East Coast of the United States.
In some areas of Newfoundland, the custom of decorating the May bush, or bough, is also still extant.
This makes the Bakassi area a very fertile fishing ground, comparable only to Newfoundland in North America and Scandinavia in Western Europe.

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