The Story of Newfoundland

CHAPTER XToC (1) Personnel At the outbreak of war there was no military force in Newfoundland. There was, however, a pre-war establishment of 580 Naval Reservists besides local Boys' Brigades. Newfoundland contributed to the fighting forces of the Empire 11,922 all ranks, consisting of 9,326 men for the Army, 2,053 men for the Royal Naval Reserve, 500 men for the Newfoundland Forestry Corps, and 43 nurses. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment furnished a battalion for the Gallipoli campaign and sent 4,253 men to France and Belgium, suffering the following casualties: Killed in action and died of wounds 1,082 Died from other causes 95 Missing 18 Prisoners of War 152 Wounded 2,314 Total 3,661 The following decorations were won by the Regiment: 1 V.C., 2 C.M.G., 4 D.S.O., 28 M.C., 6 Bars to M.C., 33 D.C.M., 1 Bar to D.C.M., 105 M.M., 8 Bars to M.M., 1 O.B.E., 22 Mentions in Despatches, 21 Allied Decorations, 3 other medals: Total, 234. In the Royal Naval Reserve 167 men were killed in action and 124 invalided out of the Service. 3,000 Newfoundlanders enlisted in the Canadian and other forces (outside Newfoundland), but there is no statistical record of casualties regarding them, although it is known they were heavy. (2) Money, etc . Total receipts, Cot Fund [55] $129,200 Total receipts, Aeroplane Fund 53,487 Total receipts, Red Cross Fund 151,500 Total receipts, Patriotic Fund 166,687 A War Loan of $6,000,000 was raised by Newfoundland. A large quantity of Red Cross material, etc., was sent from the Dominion during the war to the various organizations overseas, in addition to many thousands of dollars worth of comforts for the troops. Newfoundland provided the pay and allowances of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment (6,326 all ranks) and made up the difference in pay to bring the Royal (Newfoundland) Naval Reserve to the same scale as that of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, besides equipping the Royal Newfoundland Regiment before proceeding overseas. FOOTNOTES: [51] See a letter from the able correspondent of The Times in Newfoundland, November 6th, 1900. [52] P.T. M'Grath, "Newfoundland in 1911," p. 24. [53] This question has already been referred to several times in the preceding pages (see especially beginning of chap. viii). It may be added here that in March 1906, the Prime Minister of Canada stated that the Government of Newfoundland was fully aware that the Government of Canada was ready to entertain a proposal for the entry of the island into the confederation. [54] For the statement following the writer is indebted to Sir Edgar Bowring, the High Commissioner of Newfoundland. [55] Instead of maintaining a hospital overseas, Newfoundland supported 301 beds in addition to 32 in Newfoundland. CHAPTER X ToC THE FRENCH SHORE QUESTION It has been impossible in the above pages to avoid reference to the Anglo-French disputes in Newfoundland, but it seemed convenient to postpone a detailed examination of the question to a separate chapter. No apology is necessary for such a chapter even in a work so slight as the present, for the French Shore question was chronically acute in Newfoundland, and the French claims, like George III.'s prerogative, were increasing, had increased, and ought to have been diminished. The dispute is partly historical, partly legal, and can only be explained by reference to documents of considerable age. The French connection with Newfoundland was encouraged by the nearness of Canada, and in quaint names, such as Bay Fâcheuse and Point Enragée, it has bequeathed lasting reminders. For centuries the French, like the Dutch, went on giving too little and asking too much. By the time of Louis XIV. they had in fact established themselves—an imperium in imperio —upon the south coast, and William of Orange in the declaration of war against his lifelong enemy recited the English grievances: "It was not long since the French took licences from the Governor of Newfoundland to fish upon that coast, and paid a tribute for such licences as an acknowledgment of the sole right of the Crown of England to that island; but of late the encroachments of the French, and His Majesty's subjects trading and fishing there, had been more like the invasion of an enemy than becoming friends who enjoyed the advantages of that trade only by permission." The Treaty of Ryswick, in 1697, contained no mention of Newfoundland, and the French were, therefore, left in enjoyment of their possessory claims. In 1710 the splendid genius of Marlborough had brought Louis XIV. to his knees, and the arguments supplied by the stricken fields of Blenheim and Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet, should have made easy the task of English diplomacy. But from a corrupt political soil sprang the Treaty of Utrecht, the first leading instrument in the controversy of which we are attempting to collect the threads. The merits of the dispute cannot be understood without a careful study of Article 13 of the Treaty. It was thereby provided that: "The island called Newfoundland, with the adjacent islands, shall from this time forward belong of right wholly to Britain, and to that end the town and fortress of Placentia, and whatever other places in the said island are in possession of the French, shall be yielded and given up within seven months from the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, or sooner if possible, by the most Christian King to those who have a commission from the Queen of Great Britain for that purpose. Nor shall the most Christian King, his heirs and successors, or any of their subjects, at any time hereafter lay claim to any right to the said island and islands, or to any part of it or them. Moreover it shall not be lawful for the subjects of France to fortify any place in the said island of Newfoundland, or to erect any building there, besides stages made of boards, and huts necessary and useful for drying of fish, or to resort to the said island beyond the time necessary for fishing and drying of fish. But it shall be allowed to the subjects of France to catch fish and to dry them on land in that part only, and in no other besides that, of the said island of Newfoundland, which stretches from the place called Cape Bonavista to the northern point of the said island, and from thence, running down by the western side, reaches as far as the place called Point Riche. But the island called Cape Breta, as also all others, both in the mouth of the River St. Lawrence and in the Gulf of the same name, shall hereafter belong of right to the French, and the most Christian King shall have all manner of liberty to fortify any place or places there." The Treaty of Paris, in 1763, confirmed this arrangement, and twenty years later the Treaty of Versailles contained the following provision upon the subject: "The XIIIth Article of the Treaty of Utrecht and the method of carrying on the fishery, which has at all times been acknowledged, shall be the plan upon which the fishery shall be carried on there; it shall not be deviated from by either party; the French fishermen building only their scaffolds, confining themselves to the repair of their fishing vessels, and not wintering there; the subjects of His Majesty Britannic on their part not molesting in any manner the French fishermen during their fishing, nor injuring their scaffolds during their absence." But for the boundaries prescribed by the Treaty of Utrecht (viz. those limited by Cape Bonavista and Point Riche) new boundaries were substituted, viz., those limited by Cape St. John round by the north to Cape Ray. The coast thus indicated came to be known as the "French shore." As the declaration annexed to the above treaty was often relied upon by French diplomatists, it may be conveniently set forth in this place: "... In order that the fishermen of the two nations may not give a cause of daily quarrels, His Britannic Majesty will take the most positive measures for preventing his subjects from interrupting in any manner by their competition the fishery of the French during the temporary exercise of it which is granted to them.... His Majesty will ... for this purpose cause the fixed settlement which shall be found there to be removed, and will give orders that the French fishermen shall not be incommoded in the cutting of wood necessary for the repair of their scaffolds, huts, and fishing boats." The title of an Act of Parliament passed in 1782 in pursuance of this treaty was also pressed into the service of the French contention: "An Act to enable His Majesty to make such regulations as may be necessary to prevent the inconvenience which might arise from the competition of His Majesty's subjects and those of the most Christian King in carrying on the fishery on the coasts of the island of Newfoundland." No material alteration in the position took place from 1782 to 1792, and the Treaty of Peace of 1814 declared that "the French right of fishery at Newfoundland is replaced upon the footing upon which it stood in 1792." On these documents a very simple issue arose. According to the English contention their cumulative effect was to give the French a concurrent right of fishery with themselves upon the coasts in question. It was maintained, on the other hand, by France that her subjects enjoyed an exclusive right of fishing along the so-called French shore. It may be said at once that the course of English diplomacy was almost uniformly weak, and was in fact such as to lend no small countenance to the French contention. Thus, for many years it was the policy of the Home Government to discourage the colonists from exercising the right which was always alleged in theory to be concurrent. Nor did the Imperial complaisance end here. The French fishermen and their protectors from time to time put forward pretensions only to be justified by a revival of the sovereignty which was extinguished by the Treaty of Utrecht. Thus, they attempted systematically to prevent any English settlement at all upon the debatable shore. For residential, mining and agricultural purposes this strip would thus be withdrawn from colonial occupation. It is much to be regretted that these claims were not summarily repudiated. The Imperial Government, however, encouraged them by forbidding any grants of land along the area in dispute. Under these circumstances the theoretical assertion of British sovereignty by which the prohibition was qualified was not likely to be specially impressive. The islanders acquiesced in the decision with stolid patience, but, undeterred by the consequent insecurity of tenure, settled as squatters in the unappropriated lands. As recently as forty years ago their title was still unrecognized, and the presence of thousands of settlers with indeterminate claims had become a dangerous grievance. In 1881 Sir William Whiteway, then Premier of the colony, paid a visit to England, and his powerful advocacy procured recognition for the title of the settlers to their lands, and brought them within the pale of the Queen's law. The French shore cod fishery was recently so poor compared with the Great Bank fishery that French fishermen abandoned the former for the latter; and, in fact, but for a recent development of the French claim, it would have been possible to say of the whole question solvitur ambulando . The development referred to sprang from the growing lobster industry along the French shore. In 1874 and the following years lobster factories were erected by British subjects on the French shore, in positions where there was no French occupation and there were no French buildings. Here there was no violation of the Treaty of Utrecht provision, for the French were in no way restrained from "erecting stages made of boards, and huts necessary and useful for drying of fish," nor was there any violation of the declaration annexed to the Treaty of Versailles, that "His Britannic Majesty will take the most positive measures for preventing his subjects from interrupting in any way by their competition the fishery of the French during the temporary exercise of it which is granted them." The "fishing" which was not to be interrupted by competition was the fishery "which is granted to them," a limitation which throws us back at once upon the language of the earlier treaties. Now it is indisputably clear that the only fishing rights granted to the French were concerned with codfish. The lobster industry was then unknown; and the language used, and in particular "the stages and huts necessary and useful for drying fish" spoken of, are applicable to codfish and not to lobsters, for the canning industry was only of recent date, and lobsters, moreover, are not dried. No fishery other than that of the codfish could then have been contemplated. That this must have been abundantly clear is apparent from the memoirs of M. de Torcy, one of the negotiators of the treaty, who uses throughout the expression "morue" (codfish)—the liberty stipulated was "pêcher et sécher les morues" (to fish and dry codfish). The French, however, not content with objecting to the presence of English factories, erected factories of their own, comprehending them, it must be presumed, within the description "huts necessary and useful for the drying of fish." They contended, furthermore, that their rights were a part of the ancient French sovereignty retained when the soil was ceded to England. Such a claim was inadmissible on any view of the treaties. In fact, there was much to be said for the view that no exclusive right of fishery of any sort was ever given to the French, in spite of the language of the celebrated Declaration. As Lord Palmerston wrote, some eighty years ago, to Count Sebastiani, in his unambiguous way: "I will observe to your Excellency, in conclusion, that if the right conceded to the French by the Declaration of 1783 had been intended to be exclusive within the prescribed district, the terms used for defining such right would assuredly have been more ample and specific than they are found to be in that document; for in no other similar instrument which has ever come under the knowledge of the British Government is so important a concession as an exclusive privilege of this description accorded in terms so loose and indefinitive. Exclusive rights are privileges which from the very nature of things are likely to be injurious to parties who are thereby debarred from some exercise of industry in which they would otherwise engage. Such rights are, therefore, certain at some time or other to be disputed, if there is any maintainable ground for contesting them; and for these reasons, when negotiators have intended to grant exclusive grants, it has been their invariable practice to convey such rights in direct, unqualified, and comprehensive terms, so as to prevent the possibility of future dispute or doubt. In the present case, however, such forms of expression are entirely wanting, and the claim put forward on the part of France is founded simply upon inference and upon an assumed interpretation of words." It was, in fact, as Lord Palmerston argued, a perfectly open contention that on the authorities no exclusive right was ever given to the French, but the demeanour of this country had been such as to render the position difficult and unconvincing. We are, however, upon much firmer ground when we come to close quarters with the French claims to rights of lobster fishing. The claim was first clearly advanced in 1888, that none but Frenchmen were entitled to catch lobsters and erect preserving factories upon the French shore. This at once elicited an incisive English remonstrance, in deference to which French diplomacy had recourse to the evasion that the factories were merely temporary. They were not, however, removed, and finally in 1889 further remonstrances by Lord Salisbury were met with the bold contention that these factories were comprehended within the language of the treaties. The English Government met this volte face with a feeble proposal to resort to arbitration—a proposal which the islanders declined with equal propriety and spirit. The consequent position was vividly and faithfully stated by Sir Charles Dilke, in a passage which may be quoted in full: "Instead of protecting British fishermen in the prosecution of their lawful avocation, and resisting the new claim of the French, our Government, after failing to enforce the claim of the French, tried to go to arbitration upon it before a Court in which the best known personage was to have been M. de Martens, the hereditary librarian of the Russian Foreign Office, whose opinion on such points was hardly likely to be impartial. Luckily, the French added a condition, the enormity of which was such that the arbitration has never taken place, and it may be hoped now never will. "While British officers were backed up by the Government in most arbitrary action on behalf of the French and against the colonists, the theory continued to be that the French pretensions were disputed by us. At the end of 1889 the Home Government sent for the Prime Minister of Newfoundland, who came to England in 1890. A modus vivendi was agreed to preserving such British lobster factories as existed, and the French Government agreeing that they would undertake to grant no new lobster-fishing concessions 'on fishing grounds occupied by British subjects,' whatever that might mean. But the limitation was afterwards explained away, and the modus vivendi stated to mean the status quo . The Colonial Government strongly protested against the modus vivendi , as a virtual admission of a concurrent right of lobster fishing prejudicial to the position of Newfoundland in future negotiation; and there can be no doubt that the adoption of the modus vivendi by the British Government without previous reference to the colony, and against its wish, was a violation of the principle laid down by the then Mr Labouchere, when Secretary of State in 1857, and by Lord Palmerston. Our Government deny this, because they expressly reserved all questions of principle and right in the agreement with the French, and that is so, of course; but there can be no doubt about the effect of what they did. "By an answer given by an Under-Secretary of State in the House of Commons, the views of the Newfoundland Government were misrepresented, it being stated that they 'were consulted as to the terms of the modus vivendi , which was modified to some extent to meet their views, although concluded without reference to them in its final shape'; but the Newfoundland Government insisted that the terms of the modus vivendi had not been modified in accordance with their views, as they had protested against the whole arrangement. The Home Government quibbled and said that the answer showed that the Newfoundland Government were not responsible for the modus vivendi as settled. Plain people, however, must continue to be as indignant as the colonists are at the misrepresentation and the breach of Mr Labouchere's principle. "The terms of the modus vivendi accord to unfounded pretensions the standing of reasonable claims, and confer upon the French the actual possession and enjoyment of the rights to which these claims relate. Mr Baird refused to comply with the modus vivendi . Sir Baldwin Walker, commanding on the coast, landed a party of blue-jackets in 1891, and took the law into his own hands against Mr Baird, was sued for damages, and twice lost his case. [56] There had existed an Imperial Act under which Sir Baldwin Walker might have been protected, but it had been repealed when self-government was granted to Newfoundland. In the same year of 1891 a Newfoundland Act was passed, under heavy pressure from the Home Government, compelling colonial subjects to observe the instructions of the naval officers to the extent of at once quitting the French shore if directed, and the Act was to be in force till the end of 1893. The Home Government had passed a Bill through the House of Commons, and dropped it, before it received the Royal assent, only after the Prime Minister of Newfoundland had been heard at the bar of both Houses and had promised colonial legislation. The French Government have insisted that a British Act should be passed; and Lord Salisbury, while declaring that there ought to be a permanent Colonial Act, has always refused to promise a British Act. To my mind, the Newfoundland people went too far in giving up their freedom by passing the Act which I have named, an Act to which, had I been a member of the Newfoundland Legislature, nothing would have induced me to consent; and my sympathies are entirely with the Newfoundlanders in their refusal to part with their freedom, for all time, by making so monstrous a statute permanent." The modus vivendi treaty was periodically renewed by the Colonial Legislature with a submissiveness which would have seemed excessive if they had not been pressed with the shibboleth of Imperial interest. At the same time, signs of restiveness were not wanting. The complaints of the Newfoundlanders became more frequent, more insistent, and more emphatic. They pointed out that the French virtually claimed a monopoly of an 800-mile shore, which was entirely British of right, that in consequence they interfered with the development of the mining industry, and the extension of railways, and that thereby they were seriously hampering the progress of the colony. The case put forward by the colonists was historically strong, and there was much to be said for the contention that they were entitled to everything they claimed: on any view they could rightly complain of a cruel injustice, so long as the indolence or incompetence of English diplomacy suffered a debatable land to survive in the teeth of an undebatable argument. In August, 1898, at the request of the Newfoundland Government, a Royal Commission was appointed by Mr Chamberlain, and sent out the following year, for the purpose of inquiring into the whole question of French treaty rights. A good deal of evidence was given by local colonists of acts of French aggression, and of consequent injury in person and property. But the report remained unpublished. Such aggression was in keeping with the instructions issued in 1895 by the French Premier and Foreign Minister to the commanders of the French warships on this station: "To seize and confiscate all instruments of fishing belonging to foreigners, resident or otherwise, who shall fish on that part of the coast which is reserved for our use"—instructions that amounted to an arbitrary assertion of territorial sovereignty. And yet the actual interests of France were very meagre: thus in 1898, on a coastline where some 20,000 Newfoundlanders were settled in 215 harbours, there were only 16 French stations and 458 men on the 800-mile shore; in 1903 only 13 stations and 402 men. [57] In 1901 when the vexed question came once again before the Newfoundland Legislature, the Government declared that in renewing the modus vivendi for the following year, they did so only in consideration of the obstacles then in the way of the Imperial Government to securing a satisfactory settlement of the whole matter. In 1904 the Newfoundland Government refused to relax the Bait Law any more; and France then consented to enter into the notable agreement, which once for all abolished the inveterate grievances and difficulties arising out of the "French shore" question. In consideration of certain territorial privileges in West Africa, France agreed to relinquish her rights as to landing and drying fish on the treaty shore, which had been recognized by the Treaty of Utrecht. French subjects injured by this arrangement were to receive such compensation from Great Britain as would be awarded by a tribunal consisting of one representative of each contracting party, assisted by an umpire if necessary. The French were to enjoy the same rights as British subjects of fishing on the coast generally, and were permitted to take bait, which they had been forbidden to do by the Newfoundland Act of 1886. This convention did not affect the applicability of local law as to bait in regard to the non-treaty coast. Newfoundland was satisfied with this change. After the ratification of the agreement, the new Governor, Sir William MacGregor, telegraphed to Mr Lyttelton, the Minister for the Colonies, asking him to convey to the King the people's acknowledgment of the "great boon" conferred by the Convention, which His Majesty was chiefly instrumental in initiating, and to the British Government for having safeguarded the interests of the colony in negotiations involving so many difficulties. That this view represented that of the population at large was shown by the return to office (October) of Sir Robert Bond and his colleagues with a very strong majority. Soon afterwards an entente cordiale was established between Newfoundland and the French colony of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Thus, "the Anglo-French chapter—some four centuries long—closed; and the lobster, which darkened its closing paragraphs, ceased to be a force in history." [58] FOOTNOTES: [56] [See Baird v. Walker , Law Reports, 1891, Appeal Cases, p. 491.] [57] M'Grath, op. cit. , p. 149. [58] Rogers, op. cit. , p. 225. INDEX ToC Abandonment Suggested, 85 , 106 Admirals, Fishing, 70 , 71 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 98 , 99 Amiens, Peace of, 102 American Independence, War of, 95 American prohibition of trade, 91 American Rebellion, 90 Area of Newfoundland, 8 Bacon, Sir Francis, 15 , 66 , 96 Baird, Mr, 182 , 183 Bait Law, 185 Baltimore, Lord, 64 , 70 , 89 Banks Disaster, 135-142 Bannerman, Governor, 120 Basque Pioneers, 26 , 47 Bathurst, Lord, 107 Beauclerk, Lord Vere, 85 Beazley, Mr Raymond, 30 , 32 , 35 Blaine, J.G., 128 Blaine-Bond incident, 128 Board of Trade, The, 78 Bœothics, 17 , 102 Bonavista, Cape, 35 Bond, Sir Robert, 128 , 162 , 163 , 186 Bond-Morris, Coalition, 155 , 162 Bonfoy, Governor, 90 Bonnycastle, Sir Richard, 8 , 19 , 75 Boulton, Chief Justice, 110 Boys' Brigades, 166 Breton, Cape, Attack on, 87 Bristol, 30 , 36 , 67 , 71 British indifference, 46 , 76 , 81 , 84 , 88 , 91 , 95 , 176 , 180 , 182 Buchan, Captain, 105 Burleigh, Lord, 53 Burrill's Attack, 82 Bute, Lord, 88 Cables, Transatlantic, 7 , 120 Cabot, John, 26-32 , 35-6 , 42-3 Cabot, Sebastian, 17 , 28 , 30 , 39 , 40 , 43 Calypso , H.M.S., 165 Canada, 126 , 129 Canada, Proposed Union with, 126 , 135 , 138 , 162 , 163 , 166 Canadian Sympathy, 115 , 134 Carbonier, 83 Carson, Dr William, 104 , 107 , 109 Cartier, 18 , 50 Casualties in Great War, 168 Chamberlain, Mr, 144-154 Charles, I., 74 , 75 , 81 Charles II., 81 Cinderella of colonial history, 75 Climate, 9 , 57 Coalition Ministry, 167 Cochrane, Governor, 107 , 108 , 123 Colonization, 45 Colville, Admiral Lord, 87 Columbus, Christopher, 26 , 27 , 41 Commercial Bank, 135 Commissioners of Foreign Plantations, 74 Committee of Trade and Plantations, 77 "Company of Adventurers and Planters," 67 Conscription, 167 Cook, Captain, Survey of, 89 Copper, 12 Cortereal, Gaspar, 47 Council, Governing, 107 Court of Civil Jurisdiction, 98 Courts of Session, 98 Crewe, Lord, 164 Customs, survival of, 79 Decorations won in Great War, 169 d'Haussonville, Count, 87 de Martens, M., 181 Dilke, Sir Charles, 180 di Raimondi, Raimondo, 31 , 35 , 43 Discovery, the age of, 22 Dorrell, Governor, 89 Drake, Sir Barnard, 65 Duckworth, Governor, Sir Thomas, 103 , 104 Economic position, 20 , 92 , 122 , 137 Edward VII., 186 Elizabeth, Queen, 54 Ericsson, Leif, 25 European War, (1914-19), 164-170 Exploits River, 11 Falkland, Lord, 70 Famine, 105 Financial crisis, 135 Fires at St John's, 106 , 115 , 134 Fishing industry, 8 , 13 , 37 , 40 , 45 , 48 , 52 , 60 , 86 , 92 , 136 , 164-5 , 173 Fishing regulations, 67 , 74 Fisheries Commission, 1890, 15 Fisheries, Department of Marine and, 16 Foreign fishing vessels Act, 129 Foreign traders, duty on, 81 France, conflict with, 82 , 83 , 87 France, fishing concessions to, 67 , 84 , 175 , 179 French aggression, 23 , 81 , 82 , 96 , 172 , 185 French, agreement with, 185 French and fishing industry, 47 , 84 , 88 , 105 , 172-3 French claims, 171 , 178 , 184 French colonization, 64 French fishing interests, 98 , 102 French settlement, 81 French shore question, 171 , 186 French surrender, 87 French voyagers, 50 Gallipoli, 168 Gambier, Governor, 102 Gibbs, Mr, 158 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, voyage of, 53-63 Goodridge, Mr, 140 Governor, first, 85 Gower, Governor, 103 Grand Falls, 12 Grand Newfoundland Bank, 14 Graves, Admiral Lord, 87 , 89 Greene, Mr, 140 Grenville, Sir Richard, 53 Grey, Earl, 117 Guy, John, 67 Hague Arbitration, 16 , 129 Hakluyt, Richard, 51 , 53 Harmsworth, Messrs, 161 Harvey, Governor, 115 Hay-Bond Treaty, 129 Hayes, Captain Edward, 9 , 55 , 57-62 Hayman's, Robert, verses, 72 Henry VII., 24 , 29 , 42 , 43 Henry VIII., 24 , 48 , 50 Hill, Governor, 131 Historians, 8 Hobart, Lord, 102 Hore's voyage, 51 Hospital, first, 103 House of Assembly, 109 , 112 Hoyles, Mr, 121 Imperial War Conference, 167 Imports and exports, 20 Industries, development of, 124 , 160 , 161 , 184 Iron mines, 161 James I., 66 Justices of the Peace, 85 , 86 , 90 Justice, Administration of, 77 , 90 , 98 Keats, Governor, 104 Kent, John, 111 , 120 Kielly, Dr, 111 King, Governor, 100 Kirke, Sir David, 74 Labouchere, Mr H., 181 Labrador, 9 , 35 , 47 , 89 Lakes, 11 La Salle, 64 Latona , H.M.S., mutiny on, 100 Laws, first, 56 Leake, Admiral Sir John, Attack by, 83 Lecky, W.E.H., 96 Legislative Council, 110 Legislative power, establishment of, 102 Lilly, Mr Justin, 111 Lloyd, Sir Wm. F., 167-8 Lobster fishery, 177 , 180 Lyttelton, Hon. Alfred, 186 M'Callum, Governor, 158 MacGregor, Sir William, 163 , 186 Mansion House Fund, 135 Markland, 25 Mason, Captain John, 68 , 72 Matthew , The, 30 May March, 19 Mayflower , The, 64 Merchants, 23 , 69 , 76 , 80 , 86 , 99 , 105 , 106 , 108 Milbanke, Governor, 98 Mineral resources, 8 , 12 , 161 Montague, Governor, 92 Morine, Mr, 157-8 , 162 Morison, Mr, 162 Morris, Sir Edward, 162 , 163 , 167 Murray, Governor Sir Herbert, 144 , 149 Musgrave, Governor, 126 Native inhabitants, 17 , 19 Native races, 16 Natural features, 8 , 11 , 57 , 58 Naval Reserve, 165 , 168 , 170 Newfoundland Act, the, 183 Newfoundland forestry corps, 168 Newspaper, the first, 103 Norse explorers, 25 Nova Scotia, 85 , 106 O'Brien, Sir Terence, 135 O'Donnell, Bishop, 102 , 122 Osborne, Captain Henry, 85 Ougier, Peter, 108 Oyer and Terminer, Commissioners of, 86 Pakington, Sir John, 117 Palmerston, Lord, 178 , 182 Palliser, Governor, 88 Palliser's Act, 92 Panama Canal, 164 Paper Industry, 161 Paris, Treaty of, 87 , 104 , 174 Parke, Chief Baron, 112 Parkhurst, Anthony, 52 Pasqualigo, Lorenzo, 31 Pedley, Rev. C., 83 , 89 , 101 Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, 32 , 39 , 42 Pickmore, Governor, 105-7 Pitt, William (Lord Chatham), 87 , 88 , 97 Placentia, Attack on, 83 Plantations, 18 , 66 , 74 , 77 , 79 , 95 , 96 Planters, 18 , 68 , 76 , 77 Poor Relief, 102 , 123 , 124 , 131 , 139 Population, 20 , 77 , 91 , 93 , 94 , 102 , 126 , 132 , 137 Popham, Sir John, 67 Portuguese, 24 , 47 , 52 , 54 Post Office, 103 Prescott, Governor, 115 Prohibition, 166 Prowse, Chief Justice, 8 , 30 , 35 , 109 , 126 Railways, 21 , 124 , 131 , 132 , 133 , 159 , 184 . (See also Reid Contract and Reid Newfoundland Company) Raleigh, Sir Walter, 22 , 53 , 63 , 65 Ramusio, 32 , 39 , 40 , 42 Reeves, Chief Justice, 99 Reed, Albert, Company, 161 Reid Contract, 133 , 143-159 Reid Newfoundland Company, 159-161 Religion and religious differences, 20 , 70 , 89 , 102 , 112 , 121 Rent, first levied, 75 Revenue and expenditure, 20 Rivers, 11 Roads, first, 107 Roberval, 50 Rocky River, 12 Rodney, Governor, 86 Rogers, J.D., 8 , 13 , 66 Royal Commission, 184 Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 100 , 102 "Royal Gazette," The, 103 Rut, John, 50 Ryswick, Treaty of, 82 , 172 Salisbury, Marquis of, 180 , 183 Savings Bank, 135 Seal Fisheries, 115 , 166 Sebastiani, Count, 179 Self-Government demanded, 104 , 107 , 116 Settlers, 74 , 77 , 78 , 102 , 177 Shanandithit, 19 Shipping, 21 Smith, Adam, 95 Sothern, Captain, 100 Southampton, Mayor of, 78 Spain and Spaniards, 24 , 29 , 36 , 45 , 52 , 54 , 65 Squirrel , The, 54 , 63 St George's Bay, 131 St John's, 7 , 55 , 83 , 87 , 103 , 106 , 116 , 121 , 134 St John's, Capture by French, 83 St John's, Surrender to French, 87 Stamp Act, 91 Star Chamber, 70 , 74 , 76 , 77 Storm at St John's, 116 Taxation, 91 , 97 Telegraphs, 7 , 21 , 120 Thirkill, 43 Unemployment Problem, 124 , 138 Union Bank, 135 United States, 128 , 130 , 164 United States, Fishing Industry, 105 Utrecht, Treaty of, 83 , 102 , 172 , 174 , 176 Vaughan, Sir William, 69 , 75 Verrazzano, 50 Versailles, Treaty of, 97 , 177 Vesmond, Chevalier, 82 Vikings, 25 Volunteer Force, 165 Waldegrave, Governor, 100 , 102 , 123 Walker, Sir Baldwin, 182 Wallace, Governor Sir Richard, 100 Walsingham, 65 War Loan, 169 West Country merchants, 76 West Country, sailors of, 30 , 38 , 65 , 67 Weymouth, Mayor of, 78 Whitbourne, Sir Richard, 10 , 18 , 69 , 71 Whiteway, Sir W., 139 , 141 , 177 William III., 82 , 171 Willoughby, Sir Hugh, 17 Winter, Sir James, 143 , 155 , 158 Wireless Telegraphy, 7 Wolfe, General, 87

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