Newfoundland Colony
Newfoundland | |||||||||||
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Map of Newfoundland Colony (1891) | |||||||||||
| Status | Colony of England (1610–1707) Colony of Great Britain (1707–1801) Colony of the United Kingdom (1801–1907) | ||||||||||
| Official languages | English | ||||||||||
| Minority languages | Newfoundland French • Newfoundland Irish | ||||||||||
| Religion | Church of England | ||||||||||
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• 1610–1625 | James I (first) | ||||||||||
• 1901–1907 | Edward VII (last) | ||||||||||
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| History | |||||||||||
• English Colonization of Newfoundland | 1610 | ||||||||||
• Dominion of Newfoundland established | 1907 | ||||||||||
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Newfoundland was an English, and later British, colony established in 1610 on the island of Newfoundland. 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 1949, the country voted to join Canada as the province of Newfoundland.