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Vice-Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879-1957) was the vice-regal representative who resided longest at Government House, St. John's. He was sworn in as Governor of Newfoundland on 16 January 1936 [...]

Following the September 1939 outbreak of war between the United Kingdom and Germany, the British-appointed Commission of Government, which had been administering Newfoundland since 1934, quickly concluded that the defence [...]

On 16 February 1934, a British-appointed Commission of Government--forced on Newfoundland by the financial reverse of the Great Depression--took office in St. John's. The thinking behind the Commission was to [...]

Introduction From 16 February 1934 to 31 March 1949 Newfoundland was governed by a British-appointed Commission of Government, the suspension of responsible government having been forced on the country by [...]

Introduction On 16 February 1934 a British-appointed Commission of Government was inaugurated in St. John's. The legislature of the Dominion of Newfoundland agreed to suspend responsible government during the height [...]

Introduction In December 1917 the newspaper of the Fishermen's Protective Union (FPU), the Evening Advocate, boasted that FPU President William Coaker was 'the most powerful political and commercial factor in [...]

Introduction A riot on 5 April 1932 in St. John's was a pivotal turning point in Newfoundland and Labrador history. On that date angry citizens in St. John's marched on [...]

Introduction In June 1946, under the terms of an Act passed by the British-appointed Commission of Government that had been administering Newfoundland since 1934, a National Convention was elected in [...]

Joseph Roberts Smallwood was, and remains, a man of myth--myth of his own making and myth made by others, both friend and enemy. During his long career in Newfoundland politics--he [...]

Introduction On 16 February 1934 a British-appointed Commission of Government was inaugurated in Newfoundland after the legislature of the Dominion had agreed to the suspension of responsible government. The Commission [...]

INTRODUCTION The coming of war in September 1939 quickly lifted Newfoundland out of the Great Depression and set the country on the road to a time of unprecedented prosperity. (1) [...]

INTRODUCTION Much has been written about the process leading to the enactment of the Judicature Act of 1824, but the Act's implementation has received relatively little attention. (1) The Act [...]

INTRODUCTION On 2 February 1918, in response to a request from London for 'the Collection of materials as a basis for Articles on the Dominions and the War,' Governor Sir [...]

INTRODUCTION In the first decades of the twentieth century, despite efforts to diversify the economy, mainly through forestry and mineral developments, the fishing industry remained by far the largest employer [...]

INTRODUCTION Following its establishment, in 1944, by an Act of the Commission of Government, the St. John's Housing Corporation began assembling land to carry out its extensive plans for the [...]

INTRODUCTION The emergence of the Fishermen's Protective Union (FPU) was one of the most significant social and political developments in early twentieth-century Newfoundland. Led by William Coaker, (1871-1938), the FPU [...]

Although Sir William Ford Coaker (19 Oct. 1871-26 Oct. 1938) became one of Newfoundland's most prominent and controversial figures (as a labour leader, journalist, politician, and businessman), little is known [...]

INTRODUCTION As was the case in many countries in the early twentieth century, there was a strong temperance movement in Newfoundland. Pressure from these advocates led the government under People's [...]

IN THE INTERWAR YEARS, 1918-39, the publishing of official history occupied many researchers and writers in the Allied countries that had prevailed in the Great War--a prolonged and savage conflict [...]

INTRODUCTION ON NOVEMBER 3, 1908 William Ford Coaker (1871-1938) formed the Fishermen's Protective Union (FPU) at Herring Neck, Notre Dame Bay, to lobby the Newfoundland Government for legislative changes favourable [...]