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[DruidTwilight]

I'm Irish and I understand every word they're saying...hard to believe that they're

Canadian...They could be from here!

[hotchickfv]

lool it's so weird that we can all be from canada but not understand each other... like someone from quebec, someone from Newfoundland and someone from ontario... loool

[pittielove]

@hotchickfv ... and then the rest of Canada

[DruidTwilight]

@cellobaby I have not said anything that is incorrect. I have an excellent knowledge of global history. What I 'need to learn' is of no concern to you

[cellobaby]

@DruidTwilight you need to learn a bit more global history...

[DruidTwilight]

@Rheostatik There's a Waterford Hospital in Newfoundland, I think..It is a psychiatric facility....also names like Power, O'Reilly, O'Keeffe are all Waterford names...especially Power though, it's THE Waterford name!!!!

[Rheostatik]

@DruidTwilight The only Waterford I know of is the Waterford Valley, which is a fairly historic neighborhood in the west end of St. John's.

[Dsgooden]

@hotchickfv I think it's great...I'm Ontarian and quite a bit of that went over my head. 

[quillandandrew]

@DruidTwilight That's quite amazing, actually. Unfortunately, the history of my own province was apparently phased out of the schools that I went to. It seems that all I know, other that our involvement in the wars, is the St. John's fires and things that older people have mentioned. It really sucks. Thank you for that very significant piece of information though. It is greatly appreciated, and I'll have to check out that register if I ever go to Ireland. And no Waterfords, that I know, anyway.

[DruidTwilight]

@quillandandrew Actually it's a Waterford accent. Waterford businessman John Kent brought thousands of Waterford families over there. He was the 2nd PM of Newfoundland:The connection between St John's and Waterford Ireland is so strong that parents of children of Waterford origin, had their children baptised in St John's, then entered in the register of St Patricks Church, here in Waterford Ireland. You can see the register if you visit here. Are there any 'Waterfords' there?

[quillandandrew]

@DruidTwilight That's cause 80% of us came from you and the Scottish. The other 20 is a cocktail of everything else european. haha