Labrador

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1966
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Hudson Bay; montagnais; naskapi; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/50603

labrador n 'Labrador' is used rather var- iously and sometimes vaguely, so that it needs a little explanation. Geographers and geologists (as A.P. Low and A.P. Coleman in the 11th edit- ion of the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_) expand the word to cover the whole peninsula that is northern Quebec and political Labrador. Likewise the _Arctic Pilot_ says firmly that 'Labrador is the north-eastern peninsula of the North American continent, lying between Hudson Bay and the Gulf of St. Lawrence." Many Canadians would just call this the Quebec Peninsula and make Labrador a part of it. Politically, Labrador is the part that lies east of the height of land and north of about latitude 52 [degrees]: a northern strip of plateua and a southern region that lies in the water basin of the Hamilton River. PRINTED ITEM G. M. Story February 1966 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