Newfoundland has regained more control over their own fishery and is reaping the rewards, now doing many of the things Iceland did when they left Denmark. What do you think? Were you or someone you know affected by the Newfoundland Cod Moratorium?
If you were around during the vote to join Canada in would you have voted to join confederation or would you have preferred to see Newfoundland be its own country? Post your opinion in the comments below. We want to hear from you. GDP per capita is about the same in both places.
Per-capita debt is also about equivalent. I would have voted to stay my own country, and NOT connected to Canada. They know what to do. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Whale House Guest House offers luxury boutique private suites with outdoor hot tubs overlooking humpback whale feeding grounds.
Located next to the east coast trail in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, just 30 min from downtown St. Facebook-f Twitter Google Instagram Tripadvisor. Blog , History , Tips. February 13, am. Share on facebook Facebook. Share on twitter Twitter. Share on whatsapp In , after long and sometimes difficult negotiations, Newfoundland gave Canada a year lease to the Goose Bay site. Three years before, in recognition of its growing interest in Newfoundland, Canada had sent a High Commissioner to St.
The war brought thousands of Canadian men and women to Newfoundland, made the two countries better known to one another, and left behind a fund of goodwill in Canada towards Newfoundland. All across Canada there are veterans who remember vividly and fondly their Newfoundland days. Enjoyed many visits with a good family…I have often thought of…Wabana and also Portugal Cove. They were really the friendliest places.. Unquestionably, Canada had a long list of achievements in Newfoundland during the Second World War, but the United States spent more money there and, typically, made a stronger impression.
The Americans, still neutral, burst onto the scene in September , when the United Kingdom promised the United States base sites for 99 years in a number of its transatlantic territories, including Newfoundland.
In return, the British received 50 used American destroyers. In effect, this agreement made the base sites in Newfoundland and elsewhere extensions of the American homeland itself. This was a very one-sided deal in favour of the United States, extracted when the British had little bargaining power.
American rights in Newfoundland went far beyond anything ever given to Canada, even at Goose Bay. The Americans chose properties at St. In keeping with British practice, Newfoundlanders still drove on the left-hand side of the road. On entering an American base, however, the right-hand side rule applied.
The U. First and foremost, the war revived the economy and rescued the Newfoundland people from the appalling conditions of the s. Thanks to enlistment for service abroad and the base building boom at home, Newfoundland entered a period of unprecedented prosperity. By , the country not only enjoyed full employment, but was actually making interest-free loans of Canadian dollars to the by-then hard-pressed British. Relatively speaking, Newfoundland was still a backward place in but it had significantly improved its infrastructure and services in a few short years.
The war also enhanced the status of the Commission of Government and the power of the state in Newfoundland. For generations, Newfoundland had been a society of the native-born; the country had not attracted large numbers of immigrants for a very long time.
In fact the opposite was true; for decades people had been leaving Newfoundland for the United States and Canada. The thousands of men and women who came to the island and Labrador during the war — Canadians and Americans — brought with them new energy, new ideas and new ways. By their presence and example they represented a fundamental challenge to the status quo. Newfoundland experienced the shock of the new and emerged from the war a very different place.
Furthermore, the war made political change in Newfoundland unavoidable. The circumstances of the conflict quickly showed the limits of British power in the western Atlantic. London well understood that the revival of the Newfoundland economy, the transfer of military responsibility to Canada, and the presence of American forces made planning for political change in Newfoundland imperative.
After Clement Attlee, the British Deputy Prime Minister, visited Newfoundland in , and a parliamentary mission toured the next year, London promised that at the end of the war in Europe it would provide Newfoundlanders with constitutional machinery whereby they could decide their own political future.
This set the stage for the National Convention that met in St. Newfoundland had a long history of connection with Canada, but it was the war and its consequences that made Confederation practical. Photo by Lafayette Ltd. Courtesy of Archives and Special Collections Coll.
John's, NL. Alfred B. Morine , n. In the late s Morine, Newfoundland's Finance Minister, supported confederation. Photographer unknown. Cragg, Government and Politics Bibliography.
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