Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Chambers's Encyclopedia, Vol. 6: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People; Illustrated With Maps and Numerous Wood Engravings
Basques and Bretons successively settled in L. Since 1809, the coast district from the entrance of Hudson's Strait along the Atlantic to 52 N. Lat. Has been, and still is, attached to Newfoundland. (to this section the name of L. Is often limited.) The southern portion, draining into the St Lawrence Gulf, ' is part of the province of Quebec the western section, whose waters ?ow to Hudson s Strait and Hudson's Ba is now the N. E. Territory of the Dominion of anada. (part of this region used to be called East Main.) Another derivation of the name than that given is, that L. Was so called by Portuguese explorers; Terra. Laborador, cultivable land, as sad a misnomer as Greenland was finally proved to be in 1883!
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