Newfoundland was an English and, later, British colony established in 1610 on the island of Newfoundland, now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador...

history a colony, dominion, and province. The province had a system of responsible government from 1855 to 1934, and again since 1949. Newfoundland became...

Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland. The city spans 446...

lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in Newfoundland and Labrador came into being...

Newfoundland in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage. On 5 August 1583, Humphrey Gilbert claimed Newfoundland as England's first overseas colony under...

Canada, came very close to negotiating Newfoundland's entry into Confederation in 1892. Newfoundland remained a colony until the 1907 Imperial Conference...

with the colony of Newfoundland (which had become the Dominion of Newfoundland in 1907, leaving Bermuda as the only remaining British colony in British...

promoting religious tolerance in the colony. He also was involved in the establishment of the Newfoundland Colony and the Province of Avalon. Maryland...

Island As a political entity: Newfoundland Colony, an English and later British colony from 1583 to 1907 Dominion of Newfoundland, a self-governing dominion...

was the first proprietary governor of Newfoundland Colony, the first attempt to establish a colony on Newfoundland. Guy was the eldest son and second child...

"HMS NEWFOUNDLAND - Colony-type Light Cruiser". Naval-History.net. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2024. "Command News: H.M.S.Newfoundland". Portsmouth...

Morris KCMG PC (8 May 1859 – 24 October 1935) was a Newfoundlander lawyer and Prime Minister of Newfoundland. Born in St. John's, the son of Edward Morris and...

of Ferryland in what is now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada in the 17th century, which upon the success of the colony grew to include the land held...

Shanawdithit's mother and sister died of tuberculosis. The settlers in the Newfoundland Colony renamed Shanawdithit "Nancy April" after the month in which she was...

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Governors of Newfoundland and acted as administrator of the colony in their absence. Carter was a Freemason of St. John's Lodge, No. 579, a Newfoundland lodge...

John Kent (1805 – 1 September 1872) arrived in Newfoundland in 1820 and started working for his uncle, Patrick Morris, a successful businessman and entrepreneur...

is a geographic and cultural region within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is the primarily continental portion of the province...

the third premier of the colony of Newfoundland. Hoyles was the first premier of Newfoundland to have been born in the colony, and served from 1861 to...

portion of Newfoundland, the Avalon Peninsula, had already been granted to George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, but he was accused of abandoning his colony before...

James Spearman Winter, KCMG (1 January 1845 – 6 October 1911) was a Newfoundland politician and Premier. Winter served in the Conservative government...

while Newfoundland Colony and the Colony of New Zealand were granted dominion status by royal proclamation on 26 September. Natal and Cape Colony would...

Statistics Canada. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2013. Heritage of Newfoundland - Colony of Avalon 47°17′N 53°21′W / 47.29°N 53.35°W / 47.29; -53.35...

1885) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Governor of Lagos Colony, Governor of Newfoundland, and Governor of British Leeward Islands.[citation needed]...

given a charter by King James I of England to establish a colony on the island of Newfoundland. Most of the settlers left in the 1620s, but apparently a...

that led to Canadian Confederation. Shea was born in St. John's, Newfoundland Colony, the fifth son of Henry Shea and Eleanor Ryan. His father had emigrated...

(fl. 1630s) was the Proprietary Governor of the Province of Avalon in Newfoundland from 1634 to 1638. He was appointed to the position by Cecil Calvert...

with the priest on a plan for a Catholic mission in his new first Newfoundland Colony (off modern Canada). When King James I died in March 1625, his successor...

holder active during the transition to responsible government in the colony of Newfoundland. Archibald was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, the son of Samuel George...

ship. He was appointed the second Proprietary Governor of Newfoundland's Cuper's Cove colony in 1615, succeeding John Guy of Bristol, who had resigned...