 Naming boo-boo wipes Newfoundland off the map ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Call it the oversight that wiped Newfoundland off the map.
It's a bureaucratic blunder that can be traced to December 2001 when the province of Newfoundland officially changed its name to Newfoundland and Labrador - meaning that thCommentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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First Newfoundland, then B.C. Looks like Ottawa is slowly eliminating the ROC.
hehe
It would look to have been newfoundland's doing not Ottawa.
It's a wonder the doper's of BC haven't attempted to remove BRITISH from that province's name.
According to whom? Some bookkeeper at the "Geographical Names Board"?
This is stupid.
It would look to have been newfoundland's doing not Ottawa.
It's a wonder the doper's of BC haven't attempted to remove BRITISH from that province's name.
They haven't yet, but give them time. As is stands now, a group of idiots wants to change the name of the Strait of Georgia to the Salish Sea, and the Government is actually considering it.
Maybe when they get the cost of this stupid move they'll reconsider it.
I kinda doubt it's the dopers though, given the history of the "Georgia Strait" newspaper that was the voice of the counter culture for years during the apex of the drug culture out here.