Club Night – Dorset’s Newfoundland links

When:
June 6, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
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Guest speaker Roger Guttridge will be giving a talk on Dorset’s Links to Newfoundland. For nine years from 1993-2002 Roger wrote a column called the Old World Connection for Newfoundland’s biggest selling magazine and unearthed lots of stories about the amazingly strong connections that came about through Poole’s dominance of the North Atlantic cod trade. As an example the majority of Newfoundlanders’ ancestors came from Dorset, Devon and the New Forest 200-300 years ago and in the remoter parts they still speak with a Dorset accent, use Dorset dialect words and have most of the Dorset surnames.

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