floaters

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1970
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Bell Island; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/28374

floater n Bell Island is one of the busiest industrial centres in Newfoundland, and gives employment to a larger number of men than does any other industry. Over 2,000 men - sometimes nearer 3,000 - are employed. Many of these reside permanently on the Island, which is itself an individual electoral district under the recent Redistribution Act; but hundreds of them live in the various towns around Conception Bay. These, coming from their homes to work in and about the mines, and returning each week-end, are called "floaters." Bell Island is largely [reverse] the mainstay of a score of settlements that lie within sight of it around the shore of Conception Bay. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit GMS-1/70 JH 1/70 (over) Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 3 Used I some parts of the paragraph was used in the DNE I (from 'but hundreds). Card continues 'over' onto reverse side. See F15392.