Miss Murphy was born in Placentia, Newfoundland.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

He was also credited as one of the discoverers of the Newfoundland fisheries.

A complete map was published in 2009 ( Flood, et al., 2009 ) using these previous results with high quality mapping obtained in 2006 ( by researchers at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada who are project partners in this study.

The project was led by Dr Jeff Peakall and Dr Daniel Parsons at the University of Leeds in collaboration with the University of Southampton, Memorial University ( Newfoundland, Canada ), and the Institute of Marine Sciences ( Izmir, Turkey ).

Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

In the four Atlantic provinces ( Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador ), the reception of English law was automatic, under the principle set out by Blackstone relating to settled colonies.

After the French ceded its colonies on Newfoundland and the Acadian mainland to the British by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, the French relocated the population of Plaisance, Newfoundland to Île Royale and the French garrison was established in the central eastern part at Ste.

Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

There is speculation that Viking explorers discovered and settled in the Vinland region around 1000 AD, which is when the L ' Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador has been dated, and it is possible that further exploration was made into the present-day Maritimes and northeastern United States.

Newfoundland never ratified the statute, so it was still subject to imperial authority when its entire system of government and economy collapsed in the mid-1930s.

The GSSP of the upper boundary of the Ediacaran is the lower boundary of the Cambrian on the SE coast of Newfoundland approved by the International Commission on Stratigraphy as a preferred alternative to the base of the Tommotian Stage in Siberia which was selected on the basis of the ichnofossils Treptichnus pedum.

A person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, was found surrounded by more than 200 Great Auk beaks, which are believed to have been part of a suit made from their skins, with the heads left attached as decoration.

Dr. Cluny MacPherson of Royal Newfoundland Regiment brought the idea of a mask made of chemical absorbing fabric and which fitted over the entire head to England, and this was developed into the British Hypo Helmet of June 1915.

Newfoundland Irish, the dialect of the Irish language specific to the island was widely spoken until the mid-20th century.

Cook's aptitude for surveying was put to good use mapping the jagged coast of Newfoundland in the 1760s, aboard the HMS Grenville.

Following on from his exertions in Newfoundland, it was at this time that Cook wrote that he intended to go not only:

Newfoundland was one of the first areas settled by England in North America, beginning in small numbers in the early 17th century before peaking in the early 19th century.

Newfoundland was a British colony until 1907 when it became an independent Dominion within the British Empire.

Historically, Newfoundland English was first recognized as a separate dialect by the late 18th century when George Cartwright published a glossary of Newfoundland words.

Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").

In 1784, Britain split the colony of Nova Scotia into three separate colonies: New Brunswick, Cape Breton Island, and present-day peninsular Nova Scotia, in addition to the adjacent colonies of St. John's Island ( renamed Prince Edward Island in 1798 ) and Newfoundland.

The Menin Gate Memorial does not list the names of the missing of New Zealand and Newfoundland soldiers, who are instead honoured on separate memorials.

CN also grouped its money-losing Newfoundland operations into a separate subsidiary called Terra Transport so that federal subsidies for this service would be more visible in company statements.

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George eventually relented, and convinced the reluctant Americans to accept the presence of separate Canadian, Indian, Australian, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South African delegations.

Presently, Newfoundland and Labrador is, by far, the largest Canadian market not served by separate CTV and Global-affiliated local stations.

While closely related to the three Maritime provinces, Newfoundland and Labrador is culturally and politically separate.

The Canadian colonies were federated as a Dominion in 1867, except for Newfoundland, which remained a separate self-governing colony, was a separate Dominion in 1907-1934, reverted to being a crown colony in 1934, and joined Canada in 1949.

The province of Newfoundland and Labrador had a separate school system until 1997.

At the time that the Dominion of Newfoundland joined Canada on March 31, 1949 the schools of that Dominion were all organized on a confessional basis with separate denominational schools for Roman Catholics, Seventh-day Adventists, Salvationists, Pentecostals, and an integrated stream which oversaw the schooling for children of many members of so-called " main stream " Protestant denominations.

Prior to becoming the tenth province of Canada in 1949, Newfoundland ( then a separate British Dominion ) used the Forget-me-not as a symbol of remembrance of that nation's war dead.

Instead, the territory consisted of the United Province of Canada ( parts of modern southern Ontario and Quebec ) and the separate colonies of Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia, as well as a crown territory administered by the Hudson's Bay Company called Rupert's Land.

The provincial governments of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, British Columbia, and Ontario no longer impose a separate provincial sales tax and in those provinces the federal government collects goods and services tax at a rate higher than in the other provinces.

The provincial sales taxes for the provinces of British Columbia, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Ontario are harmonized with the GST, that is they have a combined tax instead of separate GST and PST.

After the war, Newfoundland along with the other dominions sent a separate delegation to the Paris Peace Conference but, unlike the other dominions, Newfoundland did not seek a separate membership in the League of Nations.

The purpose of the RGL was to ensure that Newfoundland and Canada remain separate countries.

Because Newfoundland did not join Canada in 1869, it would remain a separate political entity for a further four generations.

Fortis was formed in 1987 when shareholders of the regulated transmission and distribution utility Newfoundland Light & Power Co. voted to form a separate holding company.

While the Dominion of Newfoundland was still separate from Canada, during World War II, a party known as the Economic Union Party sought closer ties with the United States.

A former colony and dominion of the United Kingdom, Newfoundland and Labrador became the tenth province to enter the Canadian Confederation on March 31, 1949, as Newfoundland.

The concept of responsible government is associated in Canada more with self-government than with parliamentary accountability ; hence the notion that Newfoundland " gave up responsible government " when it withdrew its dominion status in 1933.

What it offered was dominion status, as a state of the British Empire, equal to Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

* Ireland was to become a self-governing dominion of the British Empire, a status shared by Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand and the South Africa.

The colony and later the dominion of Newfoundland had a 90-year history of issuing postage stamps.

* Dominion of Newfoundland, a self-governing dominion of the British Empire from 1907 to 1949

The Commission of Government was a non-elected body that governed Newfoundland from 1934 to 1949 ( when the former dominion became the tenth province of Canada ).

In January 1946 he was appointed Governor of Newfoundland and Commander in Chief of Newfoundland and its Dependencies, and chairman of the unelected Commission of Government that governed the dominion.

Newfoundland ( an independent dominion at the time ) was bankrupt economically and politically and gave up responsible government by reverting to direct British control.

Britain and Canada ( whose currency was shared by Newfoundland ) agreed to give the dominion financial aid in exchange for the creation of an Imperial Royal Commission to investigate the dominion's future.

Responsible government in Newfoundland voluntarily ended and governance of the dominion reverted to direct control from London — one of the few countries that has ever voluntarily given up direct self-rule.

Newfoundland remained a de jure dominion until it joined Canada in 1949 to become Canada's tenth province.

Newfoundland remained a dominion in name only.

Some commentators believe that this sectarian divide influenced the outcome of the second referendum, on 22 July 1948, which asked Newfoundlanders to choose between confederation and dominion status, produced a vote of 52 percent to 48 percent for confederation, and Newfoundland joined Canada on 31 March 1949.

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Although Ricketts is sometimes erroneously considered a Canadian soldier, it should be borne in mind that during World War I Newfoundland was a self governing dominion and did not become a Province of Canada until 1949.

Newfoundland was granted dominion status and was as independent as Australia, Canada, or New Zealand in this Period.

The Great Depression hit the Newfoundland economy hard causing the dominion government to collapse in bankruptcy.

VOCM-FM adopted the callsign in 1982 because of its corporate association with VOCM ; all three of the others signed on before 1949, while Newfoundland was still a dominion, and were allowed to keep the VO call signs despite the end of Newfoundland's sovereignty.

During that period, Newfoundland was an independent dominion within the British Empire, responsible for its own internal affairs.

Newfoundland became a dominion in 1907 and a province of Canada in 1949, and its official name became Newfoundland and Labrador in 2001.