Newfoundland
About Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador, having a total size of 405,212 km2 (156,453 sq mi). As of 2025 the population of Newfoundland and Labrador was estimated to be 549,738. The island of Newfoundland is home to around 94 per cent of the province's population, with more than half residing in the Avalon Peninsula. Labrador has a land border with the province of Quebec as well as a short border with the territory of Nunavut on Killiniq Island. The French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon lies about 20 km (12 mi) west of the Burin Peninsula.
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People got seasick, but also the thing was that the paintings themselves were, they were beautiful paintings, but they were sort of presented in this way that they kind of were a bit of an illusion, that you got a bit confused that maybe something was going on and your eyes were playing tricks with you. In the sea battle one, there was a capsized shipboat, and there were sailors that were struggling in the waves. According to one story, there was a guy who was visiting, and he had his dog with him, a Newfoundland dog, and this dog saw the drowning man in the painting and leapt over to rescue the drowning man. That is one of the stories.
from 464: No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-03 at 00:30:07 · read transcript
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Canada has been fast. They think America's big, but Canada fans out into a greater width and up into the Arctic Circle. There's a great story, sort of like a gap year, where a woman writes to her sister, who's Canadian, and says, my son, your nephew's got his gap year, and he'd be landing in Newfoundland. I wonder if you could pick him up, and her sister lived in British Columbia.
244: No Such Thing As A Fishman, 2018-11-23 · listen
There were quite a lot of them at the time. For instance, there was a guy called Alexis Vincent Charles Berbaguié in Newfoundland time who wrote books about the imps that were following him around. His surname Time was chosen because he thought that the time the herb repelled the imps, and he planned to plant an enormous time field so that it would repel all of the imps.
551: No Such Thing As President Iceberg, 2024-10-03 · listen
There were quite a lot of these, what are known, in English as outsider writers and in French as Fu Literaire, like means mad writers. There were quite a lot of them at the time. For instance, there was a guy called Alexis Vincent Charles Berbaguier, Newfoundland, Time, who wrote books about the imps that were following him around. His surname Time was chosen because he thought that the time, the herb, repelled the imps, and he planned to plant an enormous time field so they would repel all of the imps.
No Such Thing As President Iceberg, 2024-10-03 · listen
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