Why Newfoundland Used To Be The Crossroads of the World?
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Newfoundland is an amazing place that probably deserves more than 30 minutes to be fully appreciated but in this video we attempt to unpack all the historical details of this incredible island and how it came to be.
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Great info. My family were early settlers from Ireland. My ancestors were somewhat responsible for newfoundland independent court system as the British were very heavy handed in punishment. One of my ancestors was whipped for not paying rent. This resulted in the "Lundrigan-butler affair" Google it!!!
Come visit!! You can stay at my house!! 🤩
I live in Vancouver and my friend is over from St.John's. We watched your video and he couldn't get over your level of research and detail. Bravo, very well presented.
Thank you SO MUCH for including the story of the movie The Viking from 18:01 to about 19:36. That info is actually very hard to find in other places, so I was VERY surprised to see it here! It was a terrible tragedy, and the story is much longer and more complex. I urge people to look it up on Wikipedia, or even better, to Google it. It's very dramatic and sad!
The vikings landed in lanse aux meadows maybe in the 900 or 1000 years
@@johnporter4718 "The Viking" is a silent film. It is a film about people engaged in the Newfoundland seal hunt. It is not about the Vikings that landed in Newfoundland and created L'anse aux Meadows about the year 1000. "The Viking" was a sealing vessel based in St John's. The film is on You Tube by the way.
Newfoundlander here, i really enjoyed your video. You really did your research, probably the best video on my home I've ever seen. Thank you!!
Nice :D
This video should be showed in every school in Newfoundland and Labadour.
Across Canada
Hello, from paradise Newfoundland!! Just outside the beautiful city of St. John’s! Thanks for this beautiful piece!!
Interesting well made video.
Ha, Fun fact. This year, the federal government did indeed say they are going to reopen the commercial fishery dispite the cod stocks not fully recovering. Yet, the locals who fished close to shore using hand lines and traps to self sustain and did so for about 500 years, are not allowed to do so. but the big factory freezer trawlers are allowed to go back at it. As far as I am concerned, the smaller, less damaging fishery should resume first and the big commerical one which wiped out a 500 year fishing ground in a couple decades should never be allowed back at it again. Proof that our waters are just a pawn in the federal governement's game. If it were about the locals it would go to the locals hey.
My great, great, grandfather came over from England in the 1880’s and started working as a skipper at 18. Saved up his money and got a seal boat. He later became one of the richest seal hunter/boat makers on the island. To the point he would give his biggest ships to his closest friends. Several of them are wrecked in the straight of bell isle. He only had one son and a two daughters, he had generational wealth. And didn’t leave any of it to his family. Everything he had, ships, money, companies. He gave it to his best friends (Mifflin family) he left two houses to his family however. Both are now historic protected buildings. One in Bonavista, the other in Melrose. My grandfather got to live next door to his house in melrose. He sold it in 1960 for $10k. It re sold after a few other people lived there (same interior, exterior) for $2 million just because people want to live near the historic building. (I’ve been in that house, all three) and they are all beautiful. Like you’re stepping back in time
This was highly informative, not to mention downright fascinating. I've always been interested in the Maritimes, especially Newfoundland. The amount of detail and research that obviously went into this is incredible....thank you! Will definitely keep an eye out for more.
Newfoundland is part of the Atlantic provinces.
The maritimes are only Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
Hello! There is, and has been Mikmaq living in Newfoundland for centuries. There is archaeological evidence to prove this, as well as genealogy lineage to prove this in western and central Newfoundland :)
Brought in by the french😂
Go talk to the lovely staff at the rooms in St. John’s who will gladly show you evidence and correct you otherwise❤
my home!
I need to rewatch this. Just before itseems you have said that Nwfoundland was a seperate country from both Canada and England. I never knew that! And I'm a Canadian with many Newfie friends! I will need to research that!
Newfoundland was a British colony until 1949.
@@EileenJacques-r3nslight caveat; it was the self governing Dominion of Newfoundland until 1934, when we gave up independence due to financial crisis from building a cross-province railway. We were then governed by a commission from Britain until confederacy with Canada in 1949.
Newfoundland also raised our own regiment in the First World War. Our grandparents fought as Newfoundlanders officially, not as British or Canadian.
@@PaulDurdle not only did we fight in World War I We also made major contributions The Hypo Helmet (or “Smoke Helmet”) was an early gas mask developed by Newfoundland doctor Captain Cluny Macpherson during the First World War. Macpherson began working on the Hypo Helmet after the Germany army launched its first chlorine gas attack at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915. The British army began issuing the Hypo Helmet to Canadian and British soldiers in May 1915. The design was soon modified, resulting in the P, PH and PHG Helmets. By war’s end, 2.5 million Hypo Helmets had been issued. The gas mask was one of the most important innovations of the First World War.
The worst decision was joining Canada.. It ruined the Island and as a Newfoundlander I am disgusted at how we are treated... St. John's is the oldest city in Canada.. people can argue all the want.. I was just there and saw monuments and portuguese architecture that dates back to 1410.. the Beotuks were driven from Labrador to Newfoundland. They never made it to the southern shore...
Can you do a New Brunswick explained???
It’s coming
@@GeoPerspectiveCanada-fr4tj I hope you do a deep dive on the similarities between Bay du Vin and Vinland as heard in the Vinland Saga. I'm a Bay Du Vin native and am 100% certain this is Vinland after reading the saga and doing further research.
Bay du Vin can be found in the south of Miramichi Bay
The Newfoundland government voted itself out of existence in 1934, not 1964.
It’s such a shit hole the Vikings left and never came back
I think how 'irish' Newfoundland is might be a little blown out for proportion. It seems a lot more English to me.
It really depends where you are on the island. Where I grew up on the south west coast the background is very English/Welsh, but the Avalon is much more Irish. The most concentrated Irish area would be from St. John's to Placentia.
Very Irish out the bay area hour from st John's
The statistics show about 25% of the population is significantly of a Gaelic Irish background. And about 1-3% Algonquian and French (each), the rest is from England, probably including Lowland Scots. Meanwhile, 0% is believed to be descendants of the Norse settlement in Newfoundland, because those people returned to their European countries.
@@JohnDove-d8d Still, if the Viking males formed relationships with the Skraeling women, you could have a few offspring who were 50% Viking, right? There is evidence of Native North American DNA in a Viking skeleton so, maybe, there's a small amount of Viking DNA in Native Newfoundlanders.
@@dinkster1729 That statement is definitely pushing the boundary on this issue. There's no evidence of widespread intermingling between the descendants of Vikings and Indigenous people on any level.
The first meaningful interaction between between Indigenous people and people from Nordic countries which resulted in intermarriages with the Indigenous population were the descendants of New Sweden, not the old Viking days.
im fr stephenville nl
Actually you are partially wrong in at least one area . Wild grapes at the time of the Viking settlement could not be found in Newfoundland and the farthest place north they could be found was New Brunswick… so even though they settled in NFLD they also made it at the very least to NB and probably NS and beyond
Proof.
Many sources say there were grapes in Nfld, which is not far from NB. And I find that believable because Manitoba is very much colder than either Nfld or NB, and wild grapes grow there. Even in the 60s, when it was a lot colder than now, they grew in Manitoba. It is very likely though that you are right about how far the Vikings got, even if no permanent settlements have yet been found any farther south. They quite likely did explore much farther south. What brave people they were, to take on the North Atlantic in such simple boats!
I ate wild grapes 🍇 in NFLD... Just a different variety.
They say there was climate change.. the climate was different back then ( 1000 A.D.)
Awesome job. From a fellow in Newfoundland.
Hey man I'm from Newfoundland and I care very deeply about my home.
We've been through a lot in our history so it always brightens my day to see a foreigner take an interest in our little island, pop in for a visit someday you'll have a time
I'd love to
Good video d'ar me bye'
😂
Thanks for connecting the dots, great history I comes from.
There is no child that grows up in Newfoundland that does not learn about Beaumont-Hamel. I am in my 50's and the phrase "only 68 were able to answer the roll" still sends a chill down my spine. That is a powerful effect for something that happen more than 50 years before I was born.
Great documentary Sir ….. your work will prove to be invaluable to future generations …… Keep up the great documentary’s …. Bravo !!!!!
What happened to Alcock and Brown who flew from St John's, Newfoundland to an Irish bog? Shouldn't they get a mention in this documentary? . Not the mainland of Europe for sure, but closer than the Azores which the American team reached. ua-cam.com/video/jg4FSnjqAYQ/v-deo.html Were they hoping to reach England or some other place in Ireland?
16th century no the vikings were there 500 years before that
What are you talking about? Nobody ever claimed a date in the 1500s. Go back and watch it again at about 3:54. The video says the Vikings were in Nfld before the year 1000, which is what the Viking Sagas claim. They were written about 1001 CE. That also matches the archeological evidence at the Viking settlement at Lanse Aux Meadows. So your claim of 500 years before the 1600s is approximately right, but where did you hear the claim of 1600s? You should be more careful before accusing people of being wrong.
@@cattymajiv European settlement in this documentary was dated from the time of John Cabot, not the Vikings. Then, the documentary doubles back and talks about the "Nancy Meadows" site which is the only Viking site yet found in North America. The Viking site is not a permanent settlement, though. It has no evidence of animal husbandry or crop growing. It was a way station for Vikings. On the other hand, does John Cabot attempt to settle in Newfoundland and Labrador? No, he doesn't. The Basques area also mentioned and they are 100 years before John Cabot. Again, their settlement isn't permanent. It's a whaling station on Red Bay and I suppose some places where cod was dried before the Basque sailed home.
They did not stay. Their first arrival was between 980-1020 AD, and in Greenland until 1450 or so. The descendants of the Vikings returned to the Nordic countries, and then in the 1600s, their descendants returned to the Americas. But they were not here continuously all of that time.
The first *Scandinavian* settlements besides the Vikings were the Nordic settlements in New Sweden ( *Delaware* ) in 1637 , and yes, those people were the descendants of the Old Norse who had been here before.
@@dinkster1729 It was a snowbird camp. If you look at it it was intended to withstand the elements even without a guard. Norsemen lived there when they passed through that area but it wasn't intended for permanent living, it was for the snowbirds.
That was great. Very impressed.😊
Great R.O.M.E. 🍃
Has many maps on display ..
.. of All place' ..
Upper Canada
KJV* used the maps too
Amen