NEW 2009 Newfoundland Labrador Tourism - #1

Newfoundland/Labrador Tourism 2009.

"And so they came... fearless warriors, out to discover a new world."

L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland

www.newfoundlandlabrador.com

Music:

The music featured in all the NL tourism commercials is composed specifically for the campaign.

http://ericharrymusic.com/television/tourism.html

For some reason, YouTube won't let me post any comments of replies on my videos for some time, so my apologies for not getting this information out sooner!

God Guard Thee Newfoundland.

Category:

Travel & Events

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• l'anse
• aux
• meadows
• newfoundland
• labrador
• tourism
• new
• 2009
• st. john's
• vikings
• newfie
• unique
• beautiful
• scenic

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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."

[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.

[ashmantoronto]

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

[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.

[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!