They were a subject of Great Britain for the longest.

You know what I mean

But they didn't enter the confederation until 1950.

Independent from Cannacuk rule

Yeah

Newfies are based though. Nicest people you'll ever meet.

Work obsessed though.

Every Newfie I've met isn't a dogfucker like most maritimers are.

Workaholics are the worst
I could understand working hard when you're working for yourself, but for some fucking CEO of some fucking wageslave corporation that will kindly give you back a small amount of the profit you produced?

No thanks

Most of them are tradespeople and laborers. The joke used to be that the biggest city in Newfoundland was Fort MacMurray because so many of them were oil workers in Alberta.

>tradespeople

That's what my Dad does now, he started his own company with just himself and Mom so now he's in a corporate tax bracket and contracts all of his work out.

Now that's understandable

Yeah

A lot of maritimers are physical laborers.

The Mexicans of Canada really

Based af

Or Hohols of Canada

Nah we have Ukrainians out in Alberta and the praries.

They came here during the 1800's for whatever reason

My grandpa hated them and my aunt married an RCMP officer with Ukrainian heritage so that was always interesting dinner discussion.

Prolly cause Russian empire was poor af then and you could get sent to Siberia for advocating independent Ukraine

Just like for any other nation of Russian empire

That was also the time when a lot of Poles emigrated to the New World

Mostly from Congress Kingdom of Poland, but also from Prussia (Grand Duchy of Poznan) and Austria (Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia)

Yeah I got some family that came here around that time as well to be coal miners.

From east Prussia

Yeah, but they were Germans and from German part of the Prussia, so it's a bit of a different thing

In case of Poles and Ukrainians it was often too avoid persecution

Yeet.

Because of political views

Yeah I think the Ukrainians here was facing some religious opposition

Or something like that.

And taking part in uprisings

I never heard about that tbh, most Ukrainians were Orthodox anyway, and the rest were Unitarians, which are basically Catholic Orthodox, so I doubt it was anything serious

I think it was unitarians.

I'd have to look it up to be certain though.

Weird, but you may be right

A quick wikipedia search tells me they came here because WWI kinda sucked and they were having a famine as usual.

Understandable