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 of demagogues, not in 1869 and not in 1948.
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