Chris, you're absolutely correct. I forgot the Norsemen who ranged from your Northern Peninsula and made homes to, it's said, poking around Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and Massachusetts. Europeans who stayed or settled came hundreds of years later. I don't know how we ever got started on Columbus "sailing the ocean blue in 1492."

It pleases that you corrected me on this because careless history should have no place in public discourse. What makes it worse, as you know well, Newfoundlanders are my favoured Canadians and their home my favourite province. The Chancellor of McGill, Cyril James, told me years ago Newfoundlanders were the smartest Canadians.