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  • The 1908 Tie Election
    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
  • Administration of Law to 1729
    An article on the administration of law in Newfoundland to 1729
  • Agriculture and the Commission of Government
    How the Commission of Government affected agriculture in Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Allied Installations
    During the Second World War, Newfoundland played a pivotal role in Allied naval strategy for the North Atlantic.
  • The American Presence in Newfoundland and Labrador
    Under its Leased Bases Agreement with Britain, the United States had permission to establish military bases in Newfoundland.
  • The Anglo-American Leased Bases Agreement
    The United States obtained the right to build military bases in Newfoundland by the Leased Bases Agreement signed with Britain on March 27, 1941.
  • Argentia
    By the end of the Second World War, the obscure fishing villages of Argentia and Marquise had been transformed into a mammoth US military base.
  • Bell Island Sinkings
    Bell Island is one of the few locations in North America that German forces directly attacked during the Second World War.
  • Botwood
    During the Second World War, the relatively quiet port of Botwood became a highly-militarized Canadian coastal defence base.
  • Canadian Presence in Newfoundland during World War II
    As the likelihood of war increased in the 1930s, Canada realized that its defence hinged on the protection of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Sinking of the Caribou
    About the sinking of the passenger ferry, the SS Caribou by the German U-boat, U-69, on the night of October 13/14, 1942.
  • Fishery Modernization During the First 20 Years of Confederation
    In June 1948 the people of Newfoundland voted by a small but comfortable margin to join the Canadian Confederation.
  • Great Depression - Impacts on the Working Class
    The Great Depression was a time of widespread poverty and suffering in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Events Leading up to the Great Depression
    Factors that caused the eventual Great depression that began in the fall of 1929 and did not end until World War II.
  • Draft Terms of Union, 1869
    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.
  • Economic Changes, 1730-1815
    The cod fishery continued to dominate the Newfoundland and Labrador economy during the period of naval government despite dramatic changes.
  • Canada and the Newfoundland Crisis, 1929-1934
    The Great Depression hit Newfoundland hard. Its exposed, fragile economy contracted as export prices fell.
  • Economic Impacts of WW II
    Although at the root of widespread suffering, the Second World War also initiated a time of great economic prosperity in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • The Commission of Government and Education
    When the Commission of Government took office in 1934, Newfoundland and Labrador's education system was in desperate need of improvement.
  • Fishery Modernization - The Early Days
    The saltfish industry in Newfoundland, as a cyclical extractive industry dependent on an open-access resource, went through multiple periods of boom and bust.

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