NEW 2009 Newfoundland Labrador Tourism - #1

[tachius11]

Sounds like they are implying that the decedents of the vikings are still living in Newfoundland, plus those kids have stereotypical viking fetures, blond and red hair, blue eyes. "they have long since gone, as far as we can tell."

[Westonci]

@tachius11 actually most Newfoundlands descend from Irish ancestry which is why a lot of them have red hair. Very few Newfoundlanders descend from Nordic/germanic people, in north america most nordic people live in the southern US and the Western Canada.

Also Irish people are ethnically different from Germanics/Nordics.

[cinottawa]

I cannot even describe how magnificent the site at L'Anse aux Meadows is. It is a must see for every Canadian, and is well worth the trip -- especially during the summer months.

[AMG93]

0:30 Ah! The caves at Burnt Cape! 

[pspboy7]

I love how rugged Newfoundland and Labrador is... I can see why the Vikings, Scottish, and Irish liked to settle there.

[Zakopane20004]

See my video about Leif den lykkeliges voyage to America: "The Vikings in America"

[radionut63]

Geez i live here, i always lived here, and well die here, Newfoundland is the only place in the world that well bring a tear to your eye just watching videos such as this! Now thats moving!

[wizwow77]

@sweiland75 i guess then technically we can say columbus didnt really discover the new world, because there were tribes of native people already living there...

[Proudnewfoundlander1]

Loved the first few seconds

[Daikili]

Love. Love. These new NFLD commercials kick ass in so many ways.

[segoviagirl33]

i was there when they done the add....IMO they should have used local kids....none of them are from the area. still loves the add and they did a great job.

[Janison2001]

@segoviagirl33 - I think the children are beautiful - especially since they are my second cousins......they are perfect for this commercial - I'm nuts about them and so proud to be related to such a wonderful family

[segoviagirl33]

@Janison2001 they are :)  just saying it would have been extra nice to see a local little girl or boy there with them.

[LoginErroronu]

Uhm btw, scrolling down, it seems people think the aboriginal people were the first to step foot on north american soil... it's actually been found that a White persons skull was found in NA that was older than any aboriginal skull found.. just want to put that out there.

[LoginErroronu]

"Isolation is the complete. Unity amongst divinity is the total peace of a tall and strong current, that washes away your worries and mares. Someday i will walk those fields, you will see their plantation, and we will smell its air.. someday..

Long live the desire to explore new worlds, and honor those who choose to. We will do as what makes us human and explore the novel lands.. " -To quote a great viking-

[ashmantoronto]

Actually it was a typo...it was supposed to say 'it wasn't AS populated'.

It's not impossible to say that there are native people there before the Vikings arrive, but c'mon it isn't misleading either. The ad didn't even say 'they were the first EVER to find NFL, it just told how the Vikngs arrived. Is it misleading when Quebec puts ads and boasts about how 'French' it is compared to rest of Canada? I think not.

[twjtNL]

Actually 'ashmantoronto', Newfoundland had it's own native people... the Beothucks.

Sweiland75 - It's not implying that the Vikings were the first to discover Newfoundland... the commercial is just touching on the Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows, simply because it's such an intriguing part of our province.

[segoviagirl33]

@twjtNL your right . and i believe it mentions in the sagas about the Norse seeing a uni-peg (one leg) people from a distance. believed to be natives because of their coats that would be long and reach to their feet. maybe from far away they thought they were uni-peg at first.....and that they meet after but it was a fight...ill have to ask a friend that knows more about it...

[ashmantoronto]

The aboriginals lived around Ontario/Quebec and the Great Lakes(such as the Iroquois and the Hurons), and the Inuits are in the north, the east coast wasn't populated with natives. Technically it isn't misleading to say the that Vikings were the first people to arrive in NFL

[cartohead]

The Mi'kmaq are the First Peoples of Eastern Canada. Yes, we have a presence in the south coast of Newfoundland.

[summerofwhales]

@ashmantoronto Pull your head out of there. There most certainly WERE native people on the east coast: Mi'kmaq and Beothuk and Maliseet. To state that there were no native people is just plain ignorant.

[ashmantoronto]

@summerofwhales Did I say there were NO NATIVES? No. To assume someone said something else...THAT is plain ignorant.

[wizwow77]

@ashmantoronto yes there were beothucks and groswater eskimos living there at the time...the vikings didnt stay because of battles with natives..there plenty of information on the internet about it....the beaothucks lived on the island portion of the province until the early 1800s..its been said that there were around 700 beothucks who died out mostly because of TB and influenza...as well the earliest canadian settlers encroached on their hunting and fishing grounds.

[NoobSodiumCrackers]

@wizwow77 The Beothuks or the 'groswater eskimos' did not live near in Northeastern Newfoundland at the time. Either way, they would be considered Paleo-beothuk and Paleo-Eskimo -- The Vinland sagas speak of conflicts with aboriginals, and of course the sagas center around Leif Erikson, and there is not even any proof that Erikson has ever been to L'anse aux Meadows. The Beothuk did live there, as did the paleo-eskimo, but before, and after, the Norse.

[wizwow77]

@NoobSodiumCrackers yes ..that could be right..im not an expert by any means..but have always been interested in canadian history..No one can be certain which native group the vikings wrote about in the sagas..it may even be possible that the sagas refer to native groups from nova scotia or new brunswick as the vikings used lanse aux meadows as a base camp to explore the entire eastern seaboard..It is believed the settlement in northern newfoundland was occupied for about two years.

[wizwow77]

@NoobSodiumCrackers when the vikings refered to vinland they didnt just mean the northern tip of newfoundland..they were referring to canada..or at least the areas they had explored..or so i have read.