{"id":22201,"date":"2011-03-31T00:04:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T04:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=22201"},"modified":"2011-03-31T00:04:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T04:04:03","slug":"newfoundland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/03\/31\/newfoundland\/","title":{"rendered":"Newfoundland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8WNmPYmrsNk\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8WNmPYmrsNk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Pre-Confederation footage from the Salmonier River, along with a traditional Newfoundland reel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dominion_of_Newfoundland\" target=\"_blank\">Dominion of Newfoundland<\/a> joined the Dominion of Canada on this date in 1949 to become the country&#8217;s tenth province:<\/p>\n<p>Frye in an essay about E.J. Pratt, &#8220;Silence in the Sea&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The attitude I have trying to trace in Pratt and associate with his Newfoundland origin is most clearly expressed, naturally, in the poem called <em>Newfoundland <\/em>which stands first in his collected poems. As the poet watched the sea beating on the Newfoundand shores, a possible ironic or fatalistic vision is dismissed and the vision of the unquenchable energy and the limitless endurance which unite the real man with real nature takes its place:<\/p>\n<pre>Here the tides flow,\nAnd here they ebb;\nNot with that dull, unsinewed tread of waters\nHeld under bonds to move\nAround unpeopled shores\u2014\nMoon-driven through a timeless circuit\nOf invasion and retreat;\nBut with a lusty stroke of life\nPounding at stubborn gates,\nThat they might run\nWithin the sluices of men\u2019s hearts,\nLeap under throb of pulse and nerve,\nAnd teach the sea\u2019s strong voice\nTo learn the harmonies of new floods,\nThe peal of cataract,\nAnd the soft wash of currents\nAgainst resilient banks,\nOr the broken rhythms from old chords\nAlong dark passages\nThat once were pathways of authentic fires.<\/pre>\n<p>And just as the closed door separates the world of consciousness and feeling from the blind fury, so the open door unites man and his world in a common vision. (CW 12, 396-7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was lucky enough to live in Newfoundland for a year, and I can guarantee that Newfoundland did not join Canada, Canada joined Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p>I can also confirm that the bite of Newfoundland humor is keen. After the jump, a sketch from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Codco\" target=\"_blank\">CODCO<\/a>, <\/em>now twenty years defunct and still missed.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier post in which Frye cites a poignant fragment of Newfoundland verse\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2010\/08\/05\/st-johns-newfoundland\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pvHLjJDM0To\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pvHLjJDM0To<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Prison Visit, featuring Mary Walsh and Tommy Sexton (both, of course, cross-dressed). Newfoundlanders have always dealt with a long history of poverty and dysfunction with a long history of black humor about it. They have an old saying that nicely captures the unfair advantages enjoyed by those who already have more than they need at the expense of those who don&#8217;t: &#8220;Those as has, gits.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you want to see the glory of Newfoundland and the northern Canadian wilderness, check out Billy Connolly&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/cravecanada.com\/travel-news\/billy-connolly-journey-edge-world.html\" target=\"_blank\"> <em>Journey to the Edge of the World<\/em><\/a>, available on DVD. \u00a0An excerpt below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NrSqgQimlNo\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NrSqgQimlNo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8WNmPYmrsNk Pre-Confederation footage from the Salmonier River, along with a traditional Newfoundland reel The Dominion of Newfoundland joined the Dominion of Canada on this date in 1949 to become the country&#8217;s tenth province: Frye in an essay about E.J. 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