The Winding Road to Confederation - Part One: The 1869 Election
http://www.heritage.nl.ca/videos/docu... This is the first video in our five-part series on Confederation. At precisely one minute before midnight on March 31, 1949, Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada – but it held its first election on the matter 80 years earlier. For five years in the 1860s, confederation dominated political debate in what was then the colony of Newfoundland. This video takes a look at what happened.

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The Winding Road to Confederation - Part Two: Relations with Canada, 1870-1939

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The Winding Road to Confederation - Part Four: The National Convention, 1946-1948

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The Winding Road to Confederation - Part Three: The War Years, 1939-1945

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Resettlement

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Newfoundland Cod Fishermen in the 1930s

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Women's Suffrage in Newfoundland

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The Great Depression in Newfoundland and Labrador

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Why Nova Scotia Was Left Behind

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A Logger's Life Before Confederation

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Why Newfoundland Used To Be The Crossroads of the World?

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Irish Women Describe Their Ideal Man (60s vs 80s)

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How the Richest Families in Canada Built a City of Mansions —Then Tore It All Down: Montreal, Quebec

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Who Were Canada's Confederate Collaborators in the U.S. Civil War? | The Agenda

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The Story Of the Newfoundland Railway

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How Newfoundland And Labrador Lost Their Independence

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Women of the Inshore Fishery

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