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Re: driving on the right side (as opposed to the wrong side), not Computers on TV

From John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: driving on the right side (as opposed to the wrong side), not Computers on TV
Date 2020-12-22 19:21 +0000
Organization Taughannock Networks
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In article <b9d70551-64ee-4892-bae3-229383ee7d96n@googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc  <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>On Monday, December 21, 2020 at 4:05:45 PM UTC-7, John Levine wrote:
>> The last to switch was Newfoundland in 
>> 1947. (It's an island, and it wasn't part of Canada until 1949.) 
>
>Technically, you are correct, although most Canadians outside Quebec
>think of the term "Newfoundland" as referring to the entire province
>(officially named Newfoundland and Labrador).

You are of course correct, but even now Labrador has very few people
and even fewer roads. The road connection from Quebec via Labrador
City wasn't built until the 1990s.

-- 
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

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