NEWFOUNDLAND DOG 



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NEW GLASGOW 



return for the Los Islands (West Africa) and a 

 strip of territory in Africa. 



In 1905 trouble with the United States arose 

 over the fishing rights, but the controversy was 

 settled by the Hague Tribunal in 1910. 



Frequent advances have been made by Can- 

 ada to induce the island to become a prov- 

 ince of the Dominion, and Federation has been 

 a leading political issue in the colony (see 

 CANADA, subtitle History of Canada). In the 

 recent economical development of the island 

 Sir Robert Bond, Sir William Whiteway, Sir 

 William Winter and Sir R. G. Reid have been 

 prominent. On January 1, 1917, the colony be- 

 came prohibition territory. E.B.P. 



Consult Willson's The Truth about Newfound- 

 land, the Tenth Island; Smith's The Story of 

 Newfoundland. 



Hrlnted Subject*. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles, which will be of interest in 

 connection with a study of Newfoundland: 

 Cod Herring 



Copper Lobster 



Fish Paper 



Fox Saint Johns 



Grand Banks 



NEWFOUNDLAND DOG, a large, handsome 

 dog, one of the most intelligent of the family. 

 With the exception of the great Saint Bernard 

 of Switzerland, no other dog is so splendidly 

 useful to mankind, for its work in saving peo- 



Ni:\\ roUNDLAND DOO 



pie from drowning is as notable as the labor of 

 the noble rescuer of lost travelers in the Alpine 

 Blows. The Newfoundland dog was first 

 .' to the attention of Europeans toward 

 e of th. ntury, and they 



nami'd th. atuni il for tin- Hnti.-li colony on 

 which it was found. \n th> onuinal dogs of 

 that region are of different breed, it is sup- 

 posed that the Newfoundland is a result of the 



crossing of the native dogs and others intro- 

 duced from Europe in the sixteenth century 

 and later the pointer in particular. So highly 

 is the Newfoundland regarded that few if any 

 of the species are left on the island of New- 

 foundland, but these dogs have been bred in 

 large numbers elsewhere, especially in America 

 and England. 



The Newfoundland is a noble appearing ani- 

 mal, with strong, broad shoulders, powerful 

 legs, long tail and massive head. Usually the 

 shaggy coat is black, but a light coat with black 

 markings is by no means uncommon. Some of 

 these dogs have tan markings. A full-grown 

 animal is about twenty-seven inches high. 

 Aided by its powerful chest and limbs and its 

 webbed feet, it swims expertly and it brings 

 to its task of life-saving remarkable intelligence 

 and alertness. The hunter, too, finds the dog a 

 splendid retriever. One of Sir Edwin Land- 

 seer's most famous canvases pictures a New- 

 foundland dog. 



NEW GLASGOW, glas'ko, a town in Pictou 

 County, Nova Scotia, in the north-central part 

 of the Nova Scotia peninsula, eight and one- 

 half miles south of Northumberland Strait. 

 By the Intercolonial Railway it is sixteen miles 

 south of Pictou, eight and a half miles south 

 of Pictou Landing, forty-two and a half miles 

 northeast of Truro and 104 miles northeast of 

 Halifax. It is on the East River, which is navi- 

 gable for the small steamers running between 

 Prince Edward Island and the mainland. 

 Population in 1911, 6,383; in 1916, estimated, 

 9,500. 



New Glasgow is one of the most important 

 coal-mining and manufacturing communities 

 in Canada. It has the head offices and main 

 plant of the Nova Scotia Steel A Coal Com- 

 pany and of the Eastern Car Company, which 

 makes all kinds of steel and wooden freight 

 cars. Each of these plants employs over a 

 thousand men. Also important are bridge 

 works and factories for making boilers, mining 

 tools and various kinds of machinery, steel and 

 wire fencing, glass and bricks. In 1915 New 

 Glasgow added a new branch, the manufacture 

 of shells for the Canadian and Allied armies 

 in Europe, to its flourishing industries. The 

 town'> j.r. . nnncncr in the manufacture of Steel 

 and iron products is duo, of course, to its 

 proximity to the rich coal and iron mines of 

 th. province. 



The town was founded in 1785 and was 

 named for Glasgow, Scotland. It was incorpo- 

 rated in 1875. J.R. 



