I lived in the maritimes for a couple of years but I`ve only been to nfld once. One of the places we went was Trinity, maybe the oldest continuously occupied european settlement, dating from the 1400`s.
Newfoundland generally is not such a pretty place, more stark and magnificent. I could easily imagine europeans coming to the shore in summer and thinking they had found paradise until the winter swept in. The settlers that stuck it out in places like trinity were tough in the extreme.
