From: http://www.mun.ca/rels/native/micmac/mic1.html
The Indians say that when Manitou, the Great Spirit, was making
the Continent of the New World, he found that he had much material
left over in the shape of rocks, swamps, and useless trees. So he
formed a big rubbish heap by casting it all into the sea to the
north-east, and called it Wee-soc-kadao. Several years after, Cabot
discovered and claimed the island for Great Britain, when it was
called Newfoundland.{1}