Events & Past Lectures · Page 4
52-48: Seventy-Five Years of Confederation, its Impact, and its Legacy
Dr. Raymond Blake and Dr. Jeff Webb
September 28, 2024
Please join us the Mockbeggar Plantation Provincial Historic Site in Bonavista – the home of confederation advocate and Newfoundland politician F. Gordon Bradley – for a joint talk by Newfoundland and Labrador historians Dr. Raymond Blake and Dr. Jeff Webb on the history of the politics of confederation to be followed by an open discussion… Read More
Will Confederation Carry the Day: Newfoundland and Union with Canada
Dr. Raymond Blake
September 27, 2024
This presentation considers Confederation more broadly than just an issue from the 1940s. Through the long debates on union with Canada, Newfoundlanders made informed, though certainly personal and self-interested decisions on their relationship with Canada and on Confederation. Newfoundland voters were not ill-informed, not easily swayed by prejudice and hysteria nor by the emotional appeal… Read More
The People Decided: Newfoundland and Confederation, 1948
Dr. Raymond Blake
September 26, 2024
This lecture shows how Newfoundlanders and Labradorians made an informed and rational decision in 1948 to join Canada. It argues that the people and the nation itself had changed considerably since 1869 when it had rejected union with Canada. Immediately after the end of the Second World War, voters in the old colony looked to… Read More
Annual George Story Lecture -The Cupids Cove Plantation from the Earth and the Archives
William Gilbert
April 25, 2024
The Cupids Cove Plantation, discovered by William Gilbert in 1995, is the first English settlement in what is now Canada. In this talk, Mr. Gilbert will give an overview of how archaeology at Cupids and documentary research at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the National Archives at Kew in London, and archives here in Newfoundland… Read More
Confederation Correspondents: Letters to Joey Smallwood 1948 – 1951
Terry Bishop-Stirling, Sonja Boon, Andreae Callanan, Heidi Coombs, Joanne Harris, Sheila Hallett and Vicki Hallet.
March 28, 2024
In this roundtable, we look at Confederation through the words of those who lived it. Drawing on letters written to J.R. Smallwood between 1948 and 1951, we consider how Newfoundlanders and Labradorians understood themselves and their world at the time of Confederation, and what these understandings might mean for us today. Watch the Lecture at:… Read More