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Originally Posted by spuzzum
According to Wiki, he is from Bonavista, NFLD. a town of 3,764 people. Bonavista was built on an open plain, not in a steep cove, and thus had room to expand to its current area of 31.5 square kilometres.
In 2006, the automobile company Nissan developed a new SUV named Nissan X-Trail Bonavista Edition, which was supposedly inspired by the beauty of Newfoundland and named after the historical town. However, the commercial itself backfired when Bonavista Mayor Betty Fitzgerald, claimed it had portrayed people in Bonavista as people who cannot speak properly. To further expose the commercial's lack of linguistic authenticity, CBC News reported the sales rep was played by an actor from Cape Breton Island.
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I don't know what to say but for your info, it's become a running joke that every time his name was mentioned on a Flames broadcast, the play by play guy would say " he's from Bonavista Newfoundland?"