Canada's Tenth Province?
“Why is Newfoundland not a province of Canada?” is a natural question for Canadians, especially, to ask. A glance at the map is enough in itself to suggest such a question. Here is this large island lying across the St. Lawrence, at Canada's very front door. It looks as if Mother Nature had, in...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/utq.12.4.435 2023-12-31T10:17:06+01:00 Canada's Tenth Province? Lacey 1943 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.12.4.435 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/utq.12.4.435 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) University of Toronto Quarterly volume 12, issue 4, page 435-445 ISSN 0042-0247 1712-5278 General Arts and Humanities journal-article 1943 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/utq.12.4.435 2023-12-01T08:18:15Z “Why is Newfoundland not a province of Canada?” is a natural question for Canadians, especially, to ask. A glance at the map is enough in itself to suggest such a question. Here is this large island lying across the St. Lawrence, at Canada's very front door. It looks as if Mother Nature had, in some fit of caprice, cut off, with a snip of some gigantic shears, this triangular piece of territory from the rest of the mainland, and set it a short distance off-shore. It is a part, and yet not a part, of the continent. One side is indeed turned toward Canada, but the other is turned towards the Motherland across the ocean. Standing at the threshold of the New World, Newfoundland still casts a lingering glance at the Old. The most populous and most influential part of the island—the Avalon peninsula—is the part furthest from Canada and nearest to England. As an old political ditty of the year 1869 puts it: “Her face is to Britain, her back to the Gulf.” And this has, in fact, been the prevailing attitude of Newfoundland throughout her history up till the present day. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) University of Toronto Quarterly 12 4 435 445 |
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“Why is Newfoundland not a province of Canada?” is a natural question for Canadians, especially, to ask. A glance at the map is enough in itself to suggest such a question. Here is this large island lying across the St. Lawrence, at Canada's very front door. It looks as if Mother Nature had, in some fit of caprice, cut off, with a snip of some gigantic shears, this triangular piece of territory from the rest of the mainland, and set it a short distance off-shore. It is a part, and yet not a part, of the continent. One side is indeed turned toward Canada, but the other is turned towards the Motherland across the ocean. Standing at the threshold of the New World, Newfoundland still casts a lingering glance at the Old. The most populous and most influential part of the island—the Avalon peninsula—is the part furthest from Canada and nearest to England. As an old political ditty of the year 1869 puts it: “Her face is to Britain, her back to the Gulf.” And this has, in fact, been the prevailing attitude of Newfoundland throughout her history up till the present day. |
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