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Newfoundland’s most extreme form of labour radicalism emerged in 1959, with a strike led by the International Woodworkers of America (IWA). In Smallwood, Richard Gwynn characterizes the strike as the “most bitter labour dispute in Newfoundland’s history.”. Joey Smallwood, who had been active in the labour movement and helped introduced ...
Born to poverty, Smallwood cut his political teeth as an activist in the 1930s. He knew, firsthand, the threadbare existence of most Newfoundlanders. He became the province’s first Canadian premier in 1949 and remained in office for 22 years, transforming Newfoundland through lavish federal and provincial investment. Strong-willed and ...
Smallwood believed it was his destiny to lead Newfoundland out of poverty and into the industrialized world of the twentieth century. Confederation became the means to do so. Smallwood fought massive opposition from "the merchant princes" who had vested interests in keeping the place a colony and, often, the natural inclinations of fellow islanders. Still, a variety of Canadian social welfare ...
31. Aug. 2011 · Forty-four years ago Joey Smallwood spoke at a sod-turning ceremony at Churchill Falls in July of 1967. Click on the audio icon to hear some of his comments on the falls, the province and the ...
19. Dez. 1991 · Joey Smallwood, 90, who led Newfoundland into Canada as the nation's 10th province and served as its tough, colorful leader for more than 20 years, died Dec. 17 in St. John's, Newfoundland.
20. Dez. 2014 · Smallwood over time has blended into the folklore of Newfoundland, which is as much a key to the way Newfoundlanders are as history or literature. After 23 years at the top of the pole, Smallwood ...
Dear Joey: I’m still here and mixed. Mi’kmaq after all these years. You’re long dead, yet. Confederation couldn’t stop. Newfoundland’s ongoing. colonial violence. You continued so unapologetically, telling Ottawa there are no red Indians–. Nancy April, we killed them all.