Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (French: Terre-Neuve; Miꞌkmaq: Ktaqmkuk) is a large island within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is situated off the eastern coast of the North American mainland and the geographical region of Labrador.

Quotes

• I intend shortly, God willing, a journey for Newfoundland to visit a plantation which I began there some few years since.
  • George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, To Secretary of State Sir John Coke, cited by John D. Krugler in English & Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 16 August 2004).

• Although in cloaths, company, buildings faire
  With England, New-found-land cannot compare:
  Did some know what contentment I found there,
  Alwayes enough, most times somewhat to spare,
  With little paines, lesse toyle, and lesser care,
  Exempt from taxings, ill newes, Lawing, feare,
  If cleane, and warme, no matter what you weare,
  Healthy, and wealthy, if men careful are,
  With much-much more, then I will now declare,
  (I say) if some wise men knew what this were
  (I doe beleeve) they'd live no other where.
  • Robert Hayman, from Quodlibets (1628), Book I

• It seems to be a fearsome coast,—
  No trees, no hospitable whiffs,—
  God help the crew whose ship is lost
  On yonder homicidal cliffs!
  • Thomas D'Arcy McGee, "Prima Vista", in The Belleville Intelligencer, vol. 34, no. 10 (24 April 1868), p. 1

• Pakistan and Newfoundland have a lot in common: we're both economically challenged, we man a lot of call centres, our people feature heavily in jokes about people walking into bars.
  • This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Season 15, Episode 15 (28 February 2008), spoken by Danny Williams