Newfoundland Heritage Web Site

Table of Contents

Click on TABLE OF CONTENTS above to access a list of all Government and Politics articles.
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
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.
Social Changes 1972-2001

Newfoundland and Labrador society changed considerably during the last three decades of the 20th century.
Women's Associations: 1800-1966

Long before the suffrage movement, women's groups in Newfoundland and Labrador worked for social change and community improvement.
Social Impacts of WW II

The Second World War triggered a series of rapid and far-reaching social changes in Newfoundland and Labrador.