The Newfies knew:
“The Newfoundland experience well into the nineteenth century was not that of lawful colonists building up the civic institutions of a state, but one of rugged individualists, shy of all civic authority. Even in the 1930s, the Englishmen on the Amulree Royal Commission who were sent out from London to determine the political and financial circumstances of the island were shocked to find hardly any municipal government outside the city of St. John’s”
- Don’t Tell The Newfoundlanders:
The True Story of Newfoundland’s Confederation With Canada
By Greg Malone
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