Quick questions to any Maple Kiwis: Are the people and places in Labrador as silly as Newfoundland? I know Labrador is sparsely populated but since both are in the same province, maybe some of those funny names and places exist on the mainland.
No, and here's why: there are far less communities in Labrador (only 26 or so) whereas in Newfoundland there are 278, therefore much less chance of weirdos naming it something fucked up a few hundred years ago. Furthermore, a bunch of the communities in Labrador were only established in the late 1800s, early 1900s and sometimes even in the mid 1900s for the sole purpose of resource extraction (iron, hydroelectricity) or for military reasons (air base in Goose Bay), and a portion of the communities in Labrador are named either in French or in Inuktitut. In reality though if you look at the map of Newfoundland, the vast majority of the names are pretty standard sounding stuff, it's only down in that weird area surrounding Dildo where shit gets wacky.
It must also be noted that only 27 000 of the province's 521 000 live in Labrador despite its relatively massive size due to it being such an inhospitable environment. Even though the names of the places might not be silly, Labradorians are spergy as fuck and even more inbred and uneducated than the average Newf; many of them harbour some retarded notion that they can be an independent province or territory, when anyone with any knowledge of history, economics, or geography of the region knows that if they were to somehow separate from Newfoundland, they would be gobbled up and dominated by Quebec to an even greater extent than they are now. Quebec had tenuous claims to inland portions of Labrador until 1927 when the British Empire definitively took it away and gave it to what was then the Dominion of Newfoundland, which has stuck in the French faggots' craw ever since despite still having by far the largest province geographically in confederation.
This is why I am under the belief that Newfoundland and Labrador would have been much better off joining the US, because if we had, the US wouldn't give two fucks about Quebec and tell them to suck cock whenever they tried pulling their greasy shit, whereas in the Canadian federal system Quebec has arguably the most power of any province and is able to exploit us and other weak provinces at its leisure since they have so many parliamentary seats and pull so many strings in the federal apparatus from the beginning of confederation, while still claiming to be eternal victims for being a "cultural minority" even though they get their way 90% of the time. Whenever they don't get their way, they threaten the possibility of a referendum to separate like they have tried several times before and the federal government cowers like the impotent pussies they are and cedes to their demands. Basically they have the entire country held hostage and it is very difficult to win a federal election in Canada without winning a significant portion of seats in Quebec. This type of behaviour is why Quebec is by far the most hated province in the country and Canadian leftists hated Stephen Harper with such a passion because he catered to and was adored by the highly conservative Prairies and managed to win several times without Quebec's support, thus circumventing the Laurentian consensus, which has dominated this self-aggrandizing joke of a country since its inception.
Alas, Newfoundlanders were not even allowed to consider voting to join the US because the Canadian government and British Empire actually made it illegal to even put it as an option on the ballot in 1948. After the first referendum came back with the majority against joining Canada by like 45% to 41% (14% in favour of remaining as part of the Brits), they held a second one and it was 52.3% to 47.7% in favour of joining Canada (they had taken the third option off at that point); highly fucking suspicious in my opinion and in many others' opinion as well. And this is the amazing democracy
we all live in and must utterly respect with all our heart and soul. It should also be noted that Nova Scotia back in the 1860s voted like 95%+ against confederation because they knew it was a massive scam for us here in Atlantic Canada but were told basically "too bad faggots" by the Brits. Central Canada and the British Empire were extremely afraid that we'd start running the numbers here and figuring out we'd be much better off independent and in some sort of economic union with the US or outright apart of the US itself, and they couldn't have that. I know this went well beyond what you asked and I deserve a few Moai statues but this is something I am passionate as fuck about and hardly anyone ever listens to me about it in real life or on the internet lmao plus it gives people a good political/historical sense of Newfoundland/Atlantic Canada and their relation to Ontario/Quebec
