During the 1980s, a dispute developed between Canada and France over the definition of the maritime boundary between their respective territories in the region.
The nature of Newfoundland and Labrador's economy limited direct interaction between Indigenous groups and Europeans for much of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Between 1898 and 1909, Newfoundland and Labrador ice captain Bob Bartlett and American explorer Robert Peary made three separate attempts to reach the North Pole.
An important fishing base for centuries, St. Pierre and Miquelon's population have had a long and varied relationship with their neighbours in Newfoundland.
The election of 1908 resulted in the two parties winning the same number of seats, and produced Newfoundland and Labrador's most famous constitutional crisis