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A Newfoundland identity was first articulated in the 1840s, embodied in a distinction between English-born and native-born Newfoundland residents. The relative absence of a strong sense of belonging to an independent country was the underlying reason for Joey Smallwood's referendum victory.
The Newfoundland National War Memorial is located on the waterfront in St. John's, at the purported site of Gilbert's landing and proclamation. 1585 -- Bernard Drake 's Newfoundland Expedition uses St. John's as a base to supply its ships as it warns English fishermen of a Spanish embargo on their trade and decimates the Spanish and Portuguese ...
Newfoundland was an English and, later, British colony established in 1610 on the island of Newfoundland, now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. That followed decades of sporadic English settlement on the island, which was at first seasonal, rather than permanent. It was made a Crown colony in 1824 and a dominion in 1907. [1]
L'Anse aux Meadows on Newfoundland, site of a Norse colony. Abandoned colonies L'Anse aux Meadows, possibly Leifsbudir, c.1000; South Falkland, f.1623; Disasters in Newfoundland and Labrador (category) Economic history of Newfoundland and Labrador History of Fisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery ...
Pages in category "History of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Treaty of Utrecht cedes French Acadia, Newfoundland, Hudson Bay and the "country of the Iroquois" to England. The Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War, confirming British possession of Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and Acadia (except Île-Royale Cape Breton Island). France starts building Fortress Louisbourg near the eastern tip of Île-Royale.
October 31 – Newfoundland election: Robert Thorburn's Reforms win a majority; November 7 – The Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Craigellachie, British Columbia. John A. Macdonald receives a telegram announcing that the first train from Montreal in Quebec is approaching the Pacific. November 16 – Riel is hanged in Regina.
This is a brief timeline of the history of Canada, comprising important social, economic, political, military, legal, and territorial changes and events in Canada and its predecessor states. Prehistory