Add to ORKGbillyAccording to a Channel correspondent to the _Star_, Sydneyites treated Newfoundlanders as 'Billygales, not fit for anything else but a sewer, driven like slaves trying to work in sickness as well as in health in order to support families at home'. note 229, p. 517: Letter from "Redmond," Channel, to editor, _Western Star_, February 1, 1905. ["Billygale" was a 'sobriquet to designate the laborers or peasantry of Newfoundland who came to Cape Breton to work.' A term used in this period, "Billygale" was derived from a Newfoundlander named William Gale, a "rough" and "uncouth" character supposedly driven ashore in Cape Breton during a storm.] See article by an Arthur Murray in _Cape Breton Illustrated_ extracted ...