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Originally Posted by someone123
I'm not so convinced about this. There's a string of fishing village type places on the NL side and it's 20 km from similar looking fishing villages with names like "English Point" or "Mary's Harbour" on the mainland side. Historically, and in modern times (look at where the ferries go), this small distance over water would have been far less significant than many hundreds of km over subarctic land with limited/no roads.
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I guess this view depends on what one's view of "Labrador" is.
To a Haligonian like you, maybe modern Labrador is places like English Point / Mary's Harbour.
To me, at first sight it's mostly mining towns like Labrador City, and hydro projects. Much more similar to, say, Abitibi, than to anywhere culturally Newfoundlandian. Railways connect that area from Quebec.
(Also, without looking it up, I'm pretty sure at some point the partition had Newfoundland own the coast and Quebec the interior. This would somewhat match both our arguments.
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