Newfoundland Colony

Newfoundland was an English, and later British, colony established in 1610 on the island of Newfoundland, in modern-day Canada. That followed decades of sporadic English settlement on the island, which was at first only seasonal. Newfoundland was made a Crown colony in 1824 and a dominion in 1907. Its economy collapsed during the Great Depression. On 16 February 1934, the Newfoundland legislature agreed to the creation of a six-member Commission of Government to govern the country. In 1948, the country voted to join Canada as the province of Newfoundland, taking effect in 1949.