THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT NEWFOUNDLAND & THE NEWFIE'S!!
If you're a Newfie, you should be proud! here are a few tidbits of information that you may have never known before:
WE WERE......
#1 the first province to respond to Titanic distress signal (Duh!)
#2 the first to vaccinate for smallpox
#3 the first to host a transatlantic flight
#4 the first to have wireless communication in the world
#5 the first place to discover proof of the theory of continental
drift
WE HAVE......
#6 the oldest street in North America
#7 the oldest city in North America
#8 the oldest rock in the world
#9 the oldest continuous sporting event (Regatta Day rules!)
#9the largest university in Atlantic Canada
#10 the most pubs per square foot in Canada (George Street)
#11 the longest running radio program in North America
#12 caught the world's largest invertebrate (giant squid)
>WE ARE......
#13 the funniest people in Canada (ask anybody)
#14 the sexiest people in Canada (MacLean's magazine survey)
#15 the only province that has four identifiable flags
#16 the only province able to land the space shuttle (Stephenville)
#17 the most giving people in Canada (Stats Canada)
#18 the most sexually active people in all of Canada (what else are
we gonna do?)
A NEWFOUNDLANDER......
#19 built the world's first artificial ice arena
#20 invented the gas mask
#21 was once governor of northern Rhodesia
#22 was with Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg
WE ARE THE ONLY PROVINCE TO HAVE IT'S OWN........
#23 encyclopedia
#24 dictionary
#25 pony
#26 dogs
#27 cultural publication
By reading this, you now know more about Newfoundland than...well, almost everyone!! Send this email along to all your friends and let them know what a great place this Rock really is!!
If you are a proud Newfie...you will NOT break this chain... and if you are not a
Newfie you would probably wish you were....hahahahaha...