The Confederation Debate
A motion to place Confederation with Canada on the ballot was defeated 29 to 16. Joey Smallwood felt slighted by what he called 'Twenty-Nine Dictators'. Smallwood and his Confederates took the matter public. Newfoundland's Governor, Gordon Macdonald would announce on March 11, 1948 that Confederation with Canada would be on a national referendum ballot along with Dominion government and the Commission.
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