The Story of Newfoundland

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Earl of Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead. The Story of Newfoundland

The Story of Newfoundland

Table of Contents

PREFACEToC

CONTENTSToC

THE STORY OF NEWFOUNDLAND

CHAPTER IToC

THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER IIToC

THE AGE OF DISCOVERY (1497–1502)

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CHAPTER IIIToC

EARLY HISTORY. AGE OF IMPERFECT COLONIZATION

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER IVToC

EARLY HISTORY (continued). BEGINNING OF A PERFECT ENGLISH COLONY

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CHAPTER VToC

THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE

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CHAPTER VIToC

THE ENGLISH COLONIAL SYSTEM AND ITS RESULTS

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CHAPTER VIIToC

SELF-GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER VIIIToC

MODERN NEWFOUNDLAND

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CHAPTER IXToC

THE REID CONTRACT—GENERAL PROGRESS AND RECENT HISTORY

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CHAPTER XToC

THE FRENCH SHORE QUESTION

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INDEXToC

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Earl of Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead

Published by Good Press, 2019

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A pathetic chapter in the history of colonization might be written upon the fate of native races. A great English authority on international law (Phillimore) has dealt with their claims to the proprietorship of American soil in a very summary way.

"The North American Indians," he says, "would have been entitled to have excluded the British fur-traders from their hunting-grounds; and not having done so, the latter must be considered as having been admitted to a joint occupation of the territory, and thus to have become invested with a similar right of excluding strangers from such portions of the country as their own industrial operations covered."

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