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
Global Relations and the Spanish Influenza

The Spanish flu did not originate in Newfoundland and Labrador, but the ports, shipping schedules, and global trade relations made it vulnerable.