Fact: Labrador, upon discovery by the French, was labeled 'the land God gave Cain'.
They'd been declared barren by Europeans who'd arrived on their banks searching for who knew what. Despite the label, settlers arrived by the boatful and built up homes. While they grew readily, it hadn't been enough to keep them there. Eventually, the temptations of what was (and what they simply thought was) out west dragged them away again. Labrador came to sit, if reluctantly, beside his new partner as they watched them go.
They grew ill from the abandonment, but it was alright.
They were far from barren. Someday, when the Europeans were done searching, they'd come to understand that.