Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Newfoundland is a large island on Canada's Atlantic coast. This island is part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, which was federally referred to as Newfoundland until 2001. A breed of dog is named after the island; see Newfoundland (dog).'' Newfoundland is also the name of some places in the United States of America: see Newfoundland, New Jersey. Newfoundland, Pennsylvania. The word 'Newfoundland' is pronounced by Newfoundlanders with the second syllable slurred and the accent on the last, as 'Newfenland', so as to rhyme with the word 'understand'. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.