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 ==Newfoundland and Labrador Information==
-Newfoundland and Labrador is the most eastern province of Canada. It is made up of the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador. In 1854 the British government established Newfoundland's responsible government. Newfoundland remained a colony until acquiring Dominion status in 1907. A dominion constituted a self-governing state of the British Empire or British Commonwealth and the Dominion of Newfoundland was relatively autonomous from British rule. Since the early 1800s, Newfoundland and Quebec, Lower Canada had been in a border dispute over the Labrador region. In 1927, however, the British government ruled that the area known as modern day Labrador was to be considered part of the Dominion of Newfoundland. After the referendum, a seven-man delegation was picked by the British governor to negotiate Canada's offer on behalf of Newfoundland. After six of the seven-man delegation signed, the British Government passed the British North America Act, 1949 through Parliament. Newfoundland officially joined Canada at midnight, March 31, 1949.<br>
+*The first peoples were the '''Beothuk''', who became extinct in 1829. Today there are '''Inuit, Innu, Mi'kmaq and Southern Inuit peoples'''.
+*In 1501 and 1502. the Corte-Real brothers, Miguel and Gaspar, explored Newfoundland and Labrador, claiming them as part of the Portuguese Empire. Seasonal fishing outposts were established in Newfoundland around 1521, and older '''Portuguese settlements''' may have existed.
+*Sometime before 1563 '''Basque fishermen''', who had been fishing cod shoals off Newfoundland's coasts since the beginning of the sixteenth century, founded '''Plaisance (today Placentia)''', a seasonal haven which '''French fishermen''' later used.
+*Twenty years later, in 1583, Newfoundland became England's first possession in North America and one of the '''earliest permanent English colonies''' in the New World.
+*Proprietary Governors were assigned to establish colonial settlements on the island from 1610 to 1728. John Guy became governor of the first settlement at '''Cuper's Cove'''. Other settlements included '''Bristol's Hope, Renews, New Cambriol, South Falkland and Avalon.'''
+*Explorers quickly realized the waters around Newfoundland had the best fishing in the North Atlantic. By 1620, 300 fishing boats worked the Grand Banks, employing some 10,000 sailors; many continuing to come from the Basque Country, Normandy, or Brittany. They dried and salted cod on the coast and sold it to Spain and Portugal.
+*A triangular trade with New England, the West Indies, and Europe gave Newfoundland an important economic role. By the 1670s, there were 1,700 permanent residents and another 4,500 in the summer months.
+*In 1655, France appointed a governor in Plaisance (Placentia), the former Basque fishing settlement, thus starting a formal '''French colonization period''' in Newfoundland, as well as a period of periodic war and unrest between England and France in the region. In 1713, when France ceded to the British its claims to Newfoundland. The French population of Plaisance moved to Île Royale (now Cape Breton Island). French fishermen retained the right to land and cure fish on the "French Shore" on the western coast.
+*Newfoundland '''rejected confederation with Canada''' in the 1869 general election. Newfoundland remained a colony until acquiring Dominion status in 1907. A dominion constituted a self-governing state of the British Empire or British Commonwealth and the '''Dominion of Newfoundland''' was relatively autonomous from British rule.
+*Since the early 1800s, Newfoundland and Quebec had been in a border dispute over the Labrador region. In 1927, however, the British government ruled that the area known as modern-day Labrador was to be considered part of the Dominion of Newfoundland.
+*Newfoundland officially joined Canada at midnight on March 31, 1949.<ref>"Newfoundland and Labrador", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_and_Labrador, accessed 18 December 2020.</ref>
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