Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders

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 "e;official"e; version of Newfoundland history has held for over fifty years almost without question. Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders will change all that.