Newfoundland – The origin of Newfoundland dogs

After reading certain content of this blog it’s a quite big possibility that you read word “Newfoundland” many times and that totally makes sense, because the blog is about Newfoundland dogs. Also, probably a lot of the people do know where Newfoundland is, but even if so, besides geographic orientation, it will be said about some more basic things, that you may have interest in, whether you do or not own a Newfoundland dog.
Newfoundland and Labrador is one of the 10 provinces of Canada and it’s located on the east of the country. Geographical, it is composed by the island of Newfoundland and land area of Labrador, which borders Quebec, one of the provinces. Originally, this province was called only Newfoundland and it became the newest province of Canada, after its joining. Since 2001, the name “Newfoundland and Labrador” it official, so following text will be mostly about whole province.

It’s easy to conclude that the name “Newfoundland” means “New Found Land” in English, while the origin of Labrador isn’t exactly determined, but it’s credited to a Portuguese explorer Lavrador. There is about half of a million people living in Newfoundland, and the total area of the province (both land and water) is about 400.000 square kilometers. The capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador St. John’s is also a largest city in province and about 40% of province’s population lives there.
If we look back in the past, we’ll be able to see that, before becoming the tenth province of Canada, Newfoundland was United Kingdom’s colony. It became Canadian’s province on 31st of March, 1949, as “Newfoundland”, but as it was mentioned, from 2001 to date official name of the province is “Newfoundland and Labrador”.
For Newfoundland and Labrador’s province climate should be said that there are 6 of its types. If we would want to call it by one name, we would probably say that Newfoundland has some kind of a humid continental climate, which is influenced very much by the sea. Northern Labrador has polar tundra climate, while the southern has subarctic climate.

So, before ending, let’s say something about culture. Culture is quite wide term, so when talking about culture of a certain country, there are many things that can be referred to that. Here, we will say a bit about Newfoundland and Labrador’s music. Newfoundland has its own dialects of French, English and Irish language, so it’s easy to guess that their music is influenced by English and Irish (and Scottish as well). A lot of their music is focused on the sea and sailing, so therefore there are a lot of songs speaking about these subjects.