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Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders
  • Published: 15 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780307401342
  • Imprint: Knopf Canadian Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $45.00

Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders

The True Story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada

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20 Nov 2012
Paperback
15 Mar 2014
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The provocative and long-overdue book about how Newfoundlanders were deceived by Canada and Britain, now available as a trade paperback.

The true story, drawn from official documents and hours of personal interviews, of how Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation and became Canada's tenth province in 1949.

A rich cast of characters--hailing from Britain, America, Canada and Newfoundland--battle it out for the prize of the resource-rich, financially solvent, militarily strategic island. The twists and turns are as dramatic as any spy novel and extremely surprising, since the "official" version of Newfoundland history has held for over fifty years almost without question. Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders will change all that.
  • Published: 15 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780307401342
  • Imprint: Knopf Canadian Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders

Praise for Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Finalist for the BMO Winterset Award
Finalist for the Atlantic Book Awards' Rogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction
"Greg Malone has dug into a serious subject that still touches nerves in Newfoundland and Labrador: the issue of becoming Canada's 10th province in 1949.... A vivid story of how Confederation came to be." CBC News
"Meticulously researched.... Malone succeeds in crafting a compelling, passionate historical narrative." iPolitics
"Fascinating and thought-provoking." The Telegram (St. John's)