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Title: Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Harvey, M. (Moses), 1820-1901
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
Publisher: New York : The South Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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for our Navy. Surely, therefore, it is important that nothingshould be done to discourage the growth of this newly-formedNaval Reserve in Newfoundland. I know not whose is thefault, but this is what has occurred this year. Seventy moreyoung men have joined the Reserve, and it was arranged thathis Majestys ship «Calypso» should arrive at St. Johns thisautumn to take them on their training cruise. The men arenow ready and waiting here, and the Government is at a losswhat to do with them, for the «Calypso,» which was expectedsome time since, has not arrived, and no one in the Island knowswhen she is coming, if at all. The popularity of the NavalReserve movement in Newfoundland is likely to suffer fromwhat the people are inclined to regard as a snub. The Newfoundlanders are wholly of Anglo-Saxon and Celticstock, and nowhere in the colonies is there a population moreBritish in its appearance, manners and sentiment. Living inthis climate, so similar to our own, the people have the fresh
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NEWFOUNDLAND. 30 complexions of our own West Country men and the hardy lookof our deep-sea fishermen. In the streets of St. Johns I heardthe familiar accents of our West Country, of Scotland, andstill more frequently of Ireland, but nowhere could I detectthe American accent, which is so pronounced in some parts ofCanada, where the people, though true British at heart, areoften decidedly Yankee in their speech. But Newfoundland,the nearest to us of our colonies, but a little over one thousandsix hundred miles distant from the Irish coast, a stepping stone,as it has been termed, between the Old World and the New, hasever kept itself in much closer touch with the old country thanwith the main land of America. It is an island in which theEnglishman soon finds himself at home, and he cannot fail tolove these people, among whose leading characteristics are anunaffected heartiness, kindliness and hospitality.

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