My late grandmother always proclaimed that "Canada ends at Halifax" and she is absolutely right.
Huh? I think I'm missing something here. NL, formed in 1949, was Canada's tenth province. Even though their road signs IMO are the worst in the country, Newfoundland is just another province, no?
I wouldn't mind visiting SPM though. It's a little part of Europe, right here in North America.
See that's the thing, Newfoundland wasn't "created" in 1949 from the Northwest Territories like the prairie provinces were, from 1907 to 1948, Newfoundland was a country in the same sense Canada was. Essentially when Newfoundland joined Canada, it's like trying to picture New Zealand becoming a state of Australia.
Like Brexit, the 1948 referendums were a very close vote, with a very slim majority opting to join Canada, and this was due mostly to Joseph Smallwood's brainwashing, really I've done a lot of investigation and research myself on these referendums and there was something clearly rotten about the whole process, my grandmother voted for "Responsible government" in that referendum. The day after the vote happened, all the ballots were burned.
Also what's interesting is when Newfoundland was gobbled up by Canada, all of Newfoundland's history became forgotten....for instance, July 1 is a very sacred day in Newfoundland, it was the day of a massacre in 1916, 100 years ago at Beaumont-Hamel, which is part of the Battle of the Somme. Also, Newfoundland had absolutely nothing to do with what is generally seen as Canada's battle, Vimy Ridge, and thus that memorial on the $20 means absolutely nothing to me. Also the Newfoundlanders were at Gallipoli on the eastern front, the Canadians were not in this battle so who gives a crap right.
So yes SignGeek, Newfoundland wasn't just "another province", it was actually it's own country at one point.
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