Newfie

noun, Newfoundland (COD); see also Newfie (Newfoundlander), Newfie (adjective)

“We carried wheat; we carried corn; we carried some barley, coal, general cargo out of Montreal to Labrador and Newfie. And when I say general cargo I mean everything from beers to snowplows.”

“Now it was funny that people in Newfie, the Newfies that were unloading, they never take [steal] nothing.”

“The fishermen were mostly the guys that were stevedores, and this is the Bay of Highlands down Newfie, and like whatever date we come in, say we come in Monday, they’d come in in the fish boats. They’d be there the next morning, and they’d never go home ’til we were unloaded.”