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Anyone seeking to understand Canada’s role in shaping North America should spare a few days for this bracing province of hardy fisherfolk — first Canadian land to be “found” and last to join the Confederation (incorporating Labrador), in 1949.
A little way to the south are Leith Links, said to be the birthplace of golf, where the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers built a clubhouse in 1767 and where you can still enjoy a bracing round in the sea air.
Take a bracing hike along the grassy cliff top west of town, but beware of the winds.
The results are somewhat bracing for an institution that portrays itself as remarkably colorblind: some three-quarters of minority service members responding say they've experienced racism, and more than half doubted that discrimination complaints are thoroughly investigated.
Still, bracing remarks in plenty urge folk to get on with things.