Politics in Newfoundland / / S.J.R. Noel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Noel, S.J.R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)

Alone among the present provinces of Canada, Newfoundland remained politically separate until 1949, and until 1933 maintained its political independence as a self-governing dominion, constitutionally the equal of Canada itself. At that time, however, facing financial collapse, it became the first co...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• 1. The land, the people, and the constitution
• 2. The political system
• 3. The railway and politics
• 4. The Liberal party and relations with the United States and Canada
• 5. The fall of the Liberal party
• 6. The People's party and the constitutional crisis of 1908-9
• 7. The rise of the union movement
• 8. The union in politics
• 9. Politicians and the war, 1914-19
• 10. The post-war coalition
• 11. The crisis of the twenties
• 12. The collapse of responsible government
• 13. Unconditional surrender
• 14. The Dominion of Newfoundland: a retrospect
• 15. Government by commission: the apotheosis of the bureaucrat
• 16. The return to open politics
• 17. Post-confederation society and politics
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Bibliography
• Index