The process through which Newfoundland acquired a local legislature in 1832 has long been misunderstood.

The platforms of William Carson and Patrick Morris, two of the most important leaders of the reform movement in Newfoundland

Civil governors represented the authority of the crown in Newfoundland and Labrador and upheld the colony's Constitution.

Newfoundland and Labrador experienced tremendous social and economic changes during the late-18th and early-19th centuries.

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.

The events surrounding the Lundrigan-Butler affair, perhaps the most celeberated legal case in Newfoundland and Labrador history, where two fisherman were publically whipped for outstanding debts to a local merchant.