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Labrador is the distinct northerly region of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador . It comprises the mainland portion of the province, separated from the island of Newfoundland by the Strait of Belle Isle . It is the largest and northernmost ...

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n. 1 The mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, in Eastern Canada. 2 (context chiefly historical English) The geographical region including Labrador in sense 1, as well as neighbouring regions of what is now the province of Quebec. ...

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Labrador \Lab`ra*dor"\, n. A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland. Labrador duck (Zo["o]l.), a sea duck ( Camtolaimus Labradorius ) allied to the eider ducks. It was formerly common on the coast of New England, but is now ...

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They have been steadily migrating eastward along the Churchill River, then by way of Cross Lake, Fort Hope, to Abitibi, thence north-easterly clean across the country to Labrador, where few were to be found twenty-five years ago.

LABRADOR SMITH Steaming down Main Street in the Assiniboine during the Red Riverflood of 1897, Emerson, Manitoba By 1879, seventeen ships, not all owned by the HBC, were regularly employed on prairie rivers.

In 1501 the Portuguese began to depopulate Labrador, transporting the now extinct Beothuk Indians to Europe and Cape Verde as slaves.

Eventually he pleaded guilty to vandalism and, I guess, dognapping, although he agreed to pay for the Labradors and a new set of Winnebago tires.

I made ten grand dognapping a stolen Labrador retriever from a bunch of Japanese bird hunters in Alberta.

Tucking the guidebook under her arm, Gamay stepped over the mangy black Labrador retriever stretched out in a deathlike sleep on the rickety front porch and pushed the door open.

There was an election in the air, and neither 218 LABRADOR SMITH Lord Stratbcona visiting missionary Fatber Lacombe in Edmonton, 1909, after being tbrou,n from bis carriage in the Okanagan.

Construction was painfully slow, but by the spring of 150 LABRADOR SMITH 1878 the Pembina Branch was snaking the sixty miles to the American border.

Richard stood proudly beside Monty, the Labrador, and old Plunger Plumstead was there with an ancient, watery-eyed and evil-looking bull-terrier to whom he might have been closely related.

English Canadians as a 76 LABRADOR SMITH traitor who deserved to be hanged, while Quebeckers still worship him as a victim of Anglo-Saxon racial and religious prejudice.

When Cobb was at Rigolet in Labrador, the HBC employed a local cooper named Jim Deckers.

Labrador, two bassets, and a dachshund, all displaying curiosity tempered by good manners.

One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island.

There was a man there kneeling beside a hibachi, doing something with a pot, and these two black Labradors watching him.

Greenland as having established itself, a massive High now extending from just west of Iceland to the Labrador coast with pressures of 1040 millibars or more at the centre.