Labrador

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1975
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; montagnais; naskapi; Newfoundland; Ungava Bay
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/47410

labrador n 'Labrador' is used rather variously and sometimes vaguely, so that it needs a little explanation. Geographers and geologists.expand the word to cover the whole peninsula that is northern Quebec and political Labrador.Politically, Labrador is the part that lies east of the height of land and north of about latitude 52 [degrees]: a north- ern strip of plateau and a southern region that lies in the water basin of the Hamilton River.To the Moravian Missionaries, Labrador means northern Labrador - north of Hamilton inlet and up to the north-east point, but not round into Ungava Bay (which is Canadian). To the Gren- fell Missions, Labrador means southern Labrador - south of Hamilton In- let, down to Newfoundland waters. To most Canadians, Labrador - 'the Canadian Labrador' - means the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, locally just 'the North Shore'. PRINTED ITEM GMS Feb 75 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Not used laborador, labradore, larbadore, coast of ~, (down) on (the) ~, Canadian-Labrador, ~ curlew/coast/deer-mouse/duck/flying squirrel/herring/horned owl/jay/jumping mouse/martin/muskrat/polar bear/porqupine/red fox/sable/savannah sparrow/seal/shrew/vole/ Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Mon 29 Jun 2015; Newfoundland dance, northern fishery, floater 2, herring, indian, Montagnais,Naskapi, livyer, labradorman, planter, room, floater, station, stationer, larberdore, merchantable, Newfoundland dialect