1 янв 1948 г. - Newfoundland joins Canada

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When the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa were reconstructed after a fire during the First World War, stone plaques were erected over the entrance to the Peace Tower. There were ten of them, nine bearing the coats of arms of the provinces and one left bare, to await the day when Newfoundland joined Canada.
On April 1, 1949, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent cut the first ceremonial chisel strokes onto the blank stone. At 11:59 the previous night, Newfoundland had become a Canadian province.
Accompanying St. Laurent was a Newfoundlander, F. Gordon Bradley, who had just been sworn in as a member of the Canadian Cabinet. "We are all Canadians now," he proclaimed.
Yet Newfoundlanders' decision to enter into a union with Canada contradicted their history. They were a proud people who many decades before had chosen a destiny alongside Canada, rather than as part of it. The two countries grew to self-government under the British crown, Newfoundland watching Canada warily, even as ties between the two increased. Newfoundlanders lived dangerously and alone, in the memorable phrase of historian Peter Neary, with a small and scattered population and a highly vulnerable resource economy.

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