Crossword clues for labrador
labrador
- Canadian peninsula — dog
- Home of Goose Bay
- Many a Seeing Eye dog
- Neighbor of Quebec
- Part of the province of Newfoundland in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava peninsula in northeastern Canada
- City supporter setting up bar somewhere in Canada
- Part of Canada; dog
- Boy embraces supporter winning gold in Canada
- Type of retriever
- Chocolate dog
- Web-footed swimmer
- Region west of the Strait of Belle Isle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 supposed to be extinct, no specimens having been reported since 1878.
Labrador feldspar. See Labradorite.
Labrador tea (Bot.), a name of two low, evergreen shrubs of the genus Ledum ( Ledum palustre and Ledum latifolium), found in Northern Europe and America. They are used as tea in British America, and in Scandinavia as a substitute for hops.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
large province of eastern Canada, probably from Portuguese lavrador "landholder," perhaps in reference to 15c. Portuguese explorer Joao Fernandes, a landholder in the Azores. The name was first applied to Greenland. The breed of retriever dog so called from 1815. Related: Labradorian.
Wiktionary
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. 3 An abbreviated form of the dog breed name Labrador retriever.
WordNet
Wikipedia
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 geographical region in Atlantic Canada.
Labrador occupies the eastern part of the Labrador Peninsula. It is bordered to the west and the south by the Canadian province of Quebec. Labrador also shares a small land border with the Canadian territory of Nunavut on Killiniq Island.
Though Labrador's area is over twice that of the island of Newfoundland, it has only 8% of the province's population. The aboriginal peoples of Labrador include the Northern Inuit of Nunatsiavut, the Southern Inuit- Métis of Nunatukavut (NunatuKavut), and the Innu. Many of the non-aboriginal population in Labrador did not permanently settle in Labrador until the natural resource developments of the 1940s and 1950s. Before the 1950s, very few non-aboriginal people lived in Labrador year round. The few European immigrants who worked seasonally for foreign merchants and brought their families were known as Settlers.
Labrador (formerly known as Grand Falls—White Bay—Labrador and Grand Falls—White Bay) is a federal electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1949.
The riding covers all of Labrador and with just 26,000 people located in the riding it is the least populous in Canada. From 2005 to 2011, the riding was represented by Liberal MP Todd Russell. He was defeated by Conservative Peter Penashue in the 2011 federal election. Following allegations of irregularities in his campaign spending, Penashue announced on March 14, 2013 that he would resign his seat and run again as a candidate in a new by-election. Penashue subsequently lost the by-election to Liberal candidate Yvonne Jones.
Labrador is the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. This name can also refer to:
Usage examples of "labrador".
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.