Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

Harold Andrew Horwood, CM ( November 2, 1923 – April 16, 2006 ) was a Newfoundland and Labrador novelist and non-fiction writer and onetime politician.

Sir Richard Anderson Squires KCMG ( January 18, 1880 – March 26, 1940 ) was the Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919 to 1923 and from 1928 to 1932.

In 1923, Lady Elsie Elizabeth Allardyce helped start the Girl Guide movement in Newfoundland, and then in 1924 she established the Newfoundland Outport Nursing and Industrial Association ( NONIA ).

It was only in 1923 that Pratt's first commercial poetry collection, Newfoundland Verse, was released.

* Newfoundland Verse, Toronto: Ryerson, 1923. illus.

He entered politics winning election to the Newfoundland House of Assembly as a Liberal-Labour-Progressive in 1923 before crossing the floor to join the Newfoundland Liberal Party in 1925 in a dispute over tariff policy.

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.

The project was led by Dr Jeff Peakall and Dr Daniel Parsons at the University of Leeds in collaboration with the University of Southampton, Memorial University ( Newfoundland, Canada ), and the Institute of Marine Sciences ( Izmir, Turkey ).

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.

Tel ( now part of Telus ), in which a U. S. company ( GTE ) had a substantial stake ; Bell Canada, which served Ontario, most of Quebec, and part of the Northwest Territories ; and operations in Newfoundland, the Northwest Territories, Yukon and northern B. C.

Acadians eventually built small settlements throughout what is today mainland Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as well as Île-Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ), Île-Royale ( Cape Breton Island ), and other shorelines of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec.

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.

Standing ( left to right ): Walter Stanley Monroe ( Prime Minister of Newfoundland | Newfoundland ), Gordon Coates ( Prime Minister of New Zealand | New Zealand ), Stanley Bruce ( Prime Minister of Australia | Australia ), J.

* Mount Janus ( Newfoundland ), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

* Guy Fawkes Night ( United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Canadian province of Newfoundland & Labrador ), and its related observances:

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 ").

It includes some Inuit and First Nations words ( for example tabanask, a kind of sled ), preserved archaic English words no longer found in other English dialects ( for example pook, a mound of hay ), Irish language survivals like sleveen and angishore, compound words created from English words to describe things unique to Newfoundland ( for example stun breeze, a wind of at least 20 knots ( 37 km / h )), English words which have undergone a semantic shift ( for example rind, the bark of a tree ), and unique words whose origins are unknown ( for example diddies, a nightmare ).

Approximately 94 percent of the province's population resides on the Island of Newfoundland ( including its associated smaller islands ), of which over half live on the Avalon Peninsula.

A pub, formally public house ( IPA: pʌb ), is a drinking establishment fundamental to the culture of Britain, Ireland, Australia, Newfoundland, and New Zealand.

* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

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.

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.

As an example, in British Columbia the forestry industry is of great importance, while the oil and gas industry is important in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador.

The reception date for New Brunswick is 1660 ; for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, 1758 ; and for Newfoundland and Labrador, 1825.

In some parts of Atlantic Canada, such as Newfoundland, Celtic music is as or more popular than in the old country.

Nevertheless, the usage of Treptichnus pedum, a reference ichnofossil for the lower boundary of the Cambrian, for the stratigraphic detection of this boundary is always risky because of occurrence of very similar trace fossils belonging to the Treptichnids group well below the T. pedum in Namibia, Spain and Newfoundland, and possibly, in the western USA.

The Marine Atlantic terminal at North Sydney is the terminal for large ferries travelling to Channel-Port aux Basques and seasonally to Argentia on the island of Newfoundland.

The scenery of the island is rivalled in northeastern North America only by Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island tourism marketing places a heavy emphasis on its Scottish Gaelic heritage through events such as the Celtic Colours Festival, held each October, as well as promotions through the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts.

The region is located northeast of New England, southeast of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, and southwest of the island of Newfoundland.

The Mi ' kmaq Nation is also assumed to have crossed the present-day Cabot Strait at around this time to settle on the south coast of Newfoundland but were in a minority position compared to the Beothuk Nation.

There is speculation that Viking explorers discovered and settled in the Vinland region around 1000 AD, which is when the L ' Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador has been dated, and it is possible that further exploration was made into the present-day Maritimes and northeastern United States.

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.

An example of a nonstandard English dialect is Southern American English or Newfoundland English.

* 2001 – The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.

The GSSP of the upper boundary of the Ediacaran is the lower boundary of the Cambrian on the SE coast of Newfoundland approved by the International Commission on Stratigraphy as a preferred alternative to the base of the Tommotian Stage in Siberia which was selected on the basis of the ichnofossils Treptichnus pedum.

As to the Treptichnus pedum, a reference ichnofossil for the lower boundary of the Cambrian, its usage for the stratigraphic detection of this boundary is always risky because of the occurrence of very similar trace fossils belonging to the Treptichnids group well below the T. pedum in Namibia, Spain and Newfoundland, and possibly, in the western United States.

Newfoundland English is also used frequently in the city of Cambridge ON.

This version continues to air frequently and features Lara Fabian's rendition of " O Canada " or an updated version of the Ode to Newfoundland.

" Pratt's poetry frequently reflects his Newfoundland background, though specific references to it appear in relatively few poems, mostly in Newfoundland Verse ," says The Canadian Encyclopedia.

On the island of Newfoundland, residents of the capital city of St. John's would frequently be referred to as townies, whereas those not from St. John's would be referred to as baymen or bay wops-derived from outport.