Newfoundland Dogs

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/61877

Newfoundland dog . . .Newfoundland Dogs . . . told that there was here no distinct Breed�46 those I met with were mostly Curs with a Cross of the Mastiff in them Some took the water well others not at all the thing they are valued for here is strength as they are employed in winter time to Draw in Sledges whatever is wanted from the woods I was told indeed that at/trepassy Livd a man who had a distinct breed which he called the original Newfoundland Dogs . . . --- �46Banks was correct. The Newfoundland is a strain of mastiff, a variety of the domestic dog _Canis familiaris_ L. According to Harold MacPherson(1937:133-40) it is a descendant of the white or cream-coloured Pyrenean sheep dog taken to Newfoundland by Basque fishermen and crossed with mastiffs and other sporting dogs taken there by the English, and with other large dogs (over) imported by the French, Spanish and Portuguese. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G. M. Story OCT 1971 JH OCT 1971 Used I Used I 1 Used I two sided card; first side is N_13487