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  • Whether Newfoundland and Labrador should remain independant or join the federation of Canada, was an issue from 1864 to 1949.
  • After the bank crash in 1894 left Newfoundland in financial trouble, the government formally requested a conference on confederation.
  • The first formal conference to discuss a union of the British North American colonies was held at Charlottetown, PEI, in September 1864.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador experienced tremendous social and economic changes during the late-18th and early-19th centuries.
  • After 1832, two political parties emerged. The Conservative party and the Liberal or Reform party.
  • Some of Newfoundland and Labrador's best-known and most destructive disasters occurred during the era of Responsible Government.
  • Minutes of Conference Between the Committee of the Privy Council of Canada and the Undersigned Delegates from the Colony of Newfoundland, on the Subject of a Union of That Province with the Dominion of Canada. Dominion of Canada, <em>Sessional Papers 1869</em>, Volume V, No. 51.
  • The cod fishery continued to dominate the Newfoundland and Labrador economy during the period of naval government despite dramatic changes.
  • The reform era was a time of economic hardship. The end of the Napoleonic Wars plunged the colony into an economic depression lasting for years.
  • Premier Frederic Carter called a general election in 1869, in which the central issue was whether or not Newfoundland should join Canada.
  • Newfoundland election list from 1855 to 1934, showing the date, the name of the premier or prime minister, and the party in power at the time of the election.
  • The election riots of 1861 were confusing and violent riots that were caused by people trying to prevent one another from voting.
  • Extracts from a Speech by C.F. Bennett at Placentia. Colonial Office Records, series 194, Vol. 178 (CO 194/178) Public Record Office, London
  • Citizens on the island of Newfoundland won the right to vote and run for political office in 1832, when Britain granted the colony representative government.
  • Although the British Government had attempted in 1775 to limit residence, within 50 years it conferred colonial status upon Newfoundland.
  • Extract From Minutes of [Executive] Council, Tuesday, 13th September, 1864, Journal of the House of Assembly, 1865, Appendix pp. 846-47.
  • An overview of the career of John Bingley Garland (1791-1875), businessman and the first speaker of the Newfoundland House of Assembly.
  • The saltfish industry in Newfoundland, as a cyclical extractive industry dependent on an open-access resource, went through multiple periods of boom and bust.
  • Biography of Frances 'Fannie' McNeil (1869-1928).
  • This article is about the Government in Newfoundland and Labrador between 1730 and 1815. A misunderstood time in history.

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