The true story, drawn from official documents and hours of personal interviews, of how Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation and became Canada's tenth province in 1949. A rich cast of characters--hailing... source
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“The announcement of the National Convention was greeted in Newfoundland with the full range of emotions, from joy to anger. The people had waited a long time for any developments on the constitutional front, and the fact that action was finally at hand was itself a cause for relief.”
Malone describes the public reception of the National Convention's announcement; the pin is anchored at the Colonial Building because that is where the Convention met for the duration of its 1946–1948 sittings, per Heritage NL.
Greg Malone, Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders (Knopf Canada, 2012); National Convention venue corroborated by 'The Newfoundland National Convention, 1946–1948,' Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador — source
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- AboutDowntown St. John's↗
Investigation of the political manoeuvring around Newfoundland's 1949 Confederation — a political story centred in St. John's.
Penguin Random House product page for Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders. — source
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