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Colonial Building

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Map location of Colonial Building

Provincial Historic Site on Military Road; the former House of Assembly chamber where the Newfoundland National Convention's 45 delegates met from September 11, 1946 to January 30, 1948.

Scenes set here

  • Cover of Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders
    Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders

    Greg Malone

    “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 development…”

Books here

  • Cover of The Strangers' Gallery by Paul Bowdring
    settingThe Strangers' Gallery

    Paul Bowdring

    NL Studies review and Heritage NL together pin Lowe's workplace to the Colonial Building, which housed the Provincial Archives 1960–2005.

Plaques here

References

  1. 1.The Strangers' Gallery: Newfoundland and Labrador Studies review of Paul Bowdring, The Strangers' Gallery (Vagrant Press, 2013)
  2. 2.Scene from Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders: 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