Select Bibliography: Government and Politics

Primary Sources:

Government of Canada. Terms of Union of Newfoundland with Canada. Ottawa: The Government of Canada, 1948. Print.

"Newfoundland Royal Commission 1933 Report." Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site. Memorial University of Newfoundland, n.d. Web.

Secondary Sources:

Alexander, David. "Newfoundland's Traditional Economy and Development to 1934." Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Essays in Interpretation. Ed. James Hiller and Peter Neary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. 17-39. Print.

"Anspach, Rev. Lewis Amadeus." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Baker, Melvin. "Commission of Government, 1934-1949." Dr. Mel Baker's Homepage. Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1994. Web. Nov. 2007.

---. "Sectarianism, Patronage, and the Age of Harmony, 1815-1848." Dr. Mel Baker's Homepage. Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1994. Web. Apr. 2009.

Bannister, Jerry. "The Campaign for Representative Government in Newfoundland." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 5.1 (1994): 19-40. Print.

---. "The Fishing Admirals in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland." Newfoundland Studies 17.2 (2001): 166-219. Print.

---. "The Naval State in Newfoundland, 1749-1791." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 11.1 (2000): 17-50. Print.

---. The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Print.

Blake, Raymond B. Canadians at Last: Canada Integrates Newfoundland as a Province. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Print.

Bridle, Paul, ed. Documents on Relations between Canada and Newfoundland Volume 1. Ottawa: Department of External Affairs, 1974-1984. Print.

---. Documents on Relations between Canada and Newfoundland Volume 2. Ottawa: Department of External Affairs, 1974-1984. Print.

"British North America Act." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Buckner, Phillip A. "The 1860s: An End and a Beginning." The Atlantic Region to Confederation. A History. Ed. Phillip A. Buckner and John G. Reid. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Print.

Cadigan, Sean. Newfoundland and Labrador: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Print.

Cell, Gillian T. Newfoundland Discovered: English attempts at Colonisation 1610-1630. London: Haklyut Society, 1982. Print.

Chadwick, John. Newfoundland: Island into Province. London: Cambridge University Press, 1967. Print.

Clark, Richard Leon. "Newfoundland 1934-1949 - A Study of the Commission of Government and Confederation with Canada." PhD Thesis, University of California, 1951. Typescript.

"Colonial Office." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Economic Council of Canada. Newfoundland: From Dependency to Self-Reliance. Ottawa: The Councils, 1980. Chapter 7. Print.

"Economy." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

"Elections." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

English, Christopher. "From Fishing Schooner to Colony: The Legal Development of Newfoundland, 1791-1832." Law, Society, and the State: Essays in Modern Legal History. Ed. S. Binnie and L. Knafla. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Print.

---. "Newfoundland's Early Laws and Legal Institutions: From Fishing Admirals to the Supreme Court of Judicature, 1790-92." Manitoba Law Journal 23 (1996): 55-78. Print.

FitzGerald, John E. "The Confederation of Newfoundland with Canada, 1946-1949." MA thesis, Memorial University, 1992. Print.

"Government." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

"Governors." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Gunn, Gertrude. The Political History of Newfoundland 1832-1864. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966. Print.

Gwyn, Richard. Smallwood: The Unlikely Revolutionary. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972. Print.

Hiller, J.K. Newfoundland and Labrador in the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Brief Narrative. St. John's: Department of Education, 2005. Print.

Hiller, J.K. and M.F. Harrington, eds. The Newfoundland National Convention, 1946-1948. Debates, Papers and Reports. Volume 1. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. Print.

---. The Newfoundland National Convention, 1946-1948. Debates, Papers and Reports. Volume 2. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. Print.

Hiller, James. "Bennett, Charles James Fox." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 2 May 2005. Web. 23 Apr. 2007.

---. "Carter, Sir Frederic Bowker Terrington." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 2 May 2005. Web. 23 Apr. 2007.

---. "Confederation Defeated: the Newfoundland Election of 1869." Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Essays in Interpretation. Ed. James Hiller and Peter Neary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. 67-94. Print.

---. "The Political Career of Robert Bond." Twentieth Century Newfoundland: Explorations. Ed. James Hiller and Peter Neary. St. John's: Breakwater, 1994. 11-46. Print.

---. "Shea, Sir Ambrose." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 2 May 2005. Web. 23 Apr. 2007.

Hiller, James K. Confederation: Deciding Newfoundland's Future 1934 to 1949. St. John's: Newfoundland Historical Society, 1998. Print.

Hollohan, Francis and Melvin Baker, eds. A Clear Head in Tempestuous Times: Albert B. Perlin: The Wayfarer. St. John's: Harry Cuff Publications Limited, 1986. Print.

Janzen, Olaf. "A Reader's Guide to Newfoundland History to 1869." Grenfell Campus. Memorial University of Newfoundland, Nov. 2000. Web. Sept. 2008.

"Judiciary." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Lahey, Raymond J. "Catholicism and Colonial Policy in Newfoundland, 1779-1845." Creed and Culture: The Place of English-Speaking Catholics in Canadian Society, 1750-1930. Ed. Terrence Murphy and Gerald Stortz. McGill-Queesn's University Press: Montreal, 1993. 49-78. Print.

"Little, Philip Francis." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Lodge, Thomas. "Newfoundland To-day." International Affairs 14.5 (1935): 635-653. Print.

Long, Gene. Suspended State: Newfoundland Before Canada. St. John's: Breakwater, 1999. Print.

MacKenzie, David. Inside the Atlantic Triangle. Canada and the Entrance of Newfoundland into Confederation, 1939-1949. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986. Print.

Matthews, Keith. Lectures on the History of Newfoundland and Labrador 1500-1830. St. John's: Breakwater, 1988. Print.

McLintock, A.H. The Establishment of Constitutional Government in Newfoundland: A Study in Retarded Colonization. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1941. Print.

Mercer, Keith. "The Murder of Lieutenant Lawry: A Case Study of British Naval Impressment in Newfoundland, 1794." Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 21.2 (2006): 255-289. Print.

Neary, Peter. The Political Economy of Newfoundland, 1929-1972. Vancouver: Copp Clark Publishing, 1973. Print.

O'Flaherty, Patrick. "Government in Newfoundland before 1832: The Context of Reform." Newfoundland Quarterly 84.2 (1988), 26-30. Print.

---. Lost Country: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland 1843-1933. St. John's: Long Beach Press, 2005. Print.

---. Old Newfoundland: A History to 1843. St. John's: Long Beach Press, 1999. Print.

---. "The Seeds of Reform: Newfoundland, 1800-18." Journal of Canadian Studies 23.3 (1988): 39-59. Print.

Overton, James. "Poverty, Dependence and Self-Reliance: Politics, Newfoundland History and the Amulree Report of 1933." Paper presented at the Newfoundland Historical Society's Symposium on Amulree's Legacy: Truth, Lies and Consequences, 24-25 March 2000. Print.

Prowse, D.W. A History of Newfoundland. London: MacMillian and Co., 1895. Print.

---. A History of Newfoundland. 1895. Portugal Cove-St. Philip's: Boulder Publications, 2002. Print.

Reeves, John. History of the Government of the Island of Newfoundland. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1967. Print.

Rowe, Frederick W. A History of Newfoundland and Labrador. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980. Print.

Ryan, Shannon. "Fishery to Colony: A Newfoundland Watershed, 1793-1815." Acadiensis 12.2 (1983): 34-52. Print.

Thompson, Frederic F. "Cochrane, Sir Thomas John." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Dictionary of Canadian, 2000. Web. July 2009.

Webb, Jeff. A. "The Responsible Government League and the Confederation Campaigns of 1948." Newfoundland Studies 5.2 (1989): 203-220. Print.

--- "The Way it was Done: How Newfoundlanders Chose Confederation." Newfoundland Quarterly Dec. (2002): 26-32. Print.

Wheeler, Lorne B. "The Loss of Responsible Self-Government and Dominion Status by Newfoundland, 1933-1934." Unpublished paper for History 570, Memorial University, fall 1967. Print.