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Vor 4 Tagen · As promised, Canada’s modest but tangible safety net brought in family allowances, higher pensions, and unemployment insurance. Roads would be paved, schools built, and history curriculums revised. Joey Smallwood became the new province’s first elected premier, a fixture in power until 1972, the last living Father of Confederation.
Vor 4 Tagen · Prime Minister Joey Smallwood signed the Terms of Union that made Newfoundland and Labrador the 10 th Canadian province in 1949. Source: Library and Archives Canada, 3194648. The Royal Canadian Mint’s chief engraver, Thomas Shingles, designed the commemorative dollar with the Matthew ship.
Vor 3 Tagen · Cashin’s uncle, politician Peter Cashin, advocated for responsible government and clashed with future premier Joey Smallwood over Confederation, warning Newfoundlanders against giving up on self-government. Richard Cashin grew up to become a significant figure in the province’s political history in his own right. A lawyer, he served ...
Vor einem Tag · Joey Smallwood signs the terms of union between Newfoundland and Canada in the Senate Chamber in Ottawas on Dec. 13, 1948. Newfoundland officially joined Confederation the following March. (CP Photo)
Vor 2 Tagen · The 1980’s and working at Sparrows Point Shipyard. My father, myself, and some others from Pasadena made the trip for over 12 years across that bridge. After long hot days in the hull of ships , we would stop sometimes at the beer store on Ft Smallwood Road and get a cold tallboy. Not to mention long nights at Gails on Northpoint Blvd. That ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Cadigan comprehensively details everything from the first European settlements, the displacement and extinction of the indigenous Beothuk by European settlers, the conflicts between settlers and imperial governance, to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment's near annihilation at the Battle of the Somme, the rise of Newfoundland nationalism, Joey Smallwood's case for confederation, and the ...
Vor 5 Tagen · The J.R. Smallwood Collection at MUN’s archives includes hundreds of letters written to Smallwood from residents of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1948 until 1971, as well as some of his replies. “Widows’ pensions, for example, were limited to those who did not have unmarried adult sons to provide for them. Family allowance regulations, too, placed some women and their families in ...