Newfoundland & Labrador learning — 1000 Years of History I Was Not Taught

original video:    • How Newfoundland And Labrador Lost Their I...   I did not plan to spend an afternoon learning about Newfoundland and Labrador. And yet. This is a province at the edge of North America — geographically isolated, historically complicated, and surprisingly easy to respect. The Vikings were here first. Then the French. Then the English. The cod was here before everyone, and it is mostly gone now. There is a lesson somewhere in that. I am a man from the Auvergne. I know what it means to live somewhere the rest of the country forgets — somewhere with its own accent, its own memory, its own stubbornness. Newfoundland understands this. It joined Canada in 1949. By 52.3% of the vote. I will say nothing more about that. The Unimpressed Frenchman — Since 52 AD