Moved from Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids.

There's not a huge number of grasshopper species to choose from up in Newfoundland and I'm pretty sure that this is an adult female meadow grasshopper or Chorthippus curtipennis. These hoppers can be very variable in their colouring and markings, but are usually either tan-on-top/green-sided or tan-on-top/brown-sided, with yellowish underparts, some dark markings elsewhere, and a distinctive thin yellow crescent on the sides of their thorax (which your specimen has). They can also be tan/brown with lots of darker striping and a smutty face, green-sided with pink or purple-on-top, or solid pink. The males are quite a bit smaller than the females and stridulate loudly for their size--if they're around, you should be able to hear them easily. At this time of year, the males often climb around a lot too, looking for females, which makes them doubly conspicuous. 3.5 cm is large for a female meadow grasshopper, but still within their normal size range. The image below represents one of the larger, chunkier specimens of this species which I could find and which I think looks a lot like yours. It came from the site linked beneath it--check it out to see a similar, representative male.



http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/entomology/hopper/index/chorthippus_curtipennis.htm