Show As S oldest british british colon colony y pride in senior A lin dent bar to union 1 th 11 canada llanah TO 1 at CENTURY pledged british colony vernor when canada position Is ant n lt geographically il li i renewed discussion ors of the united states at the desirability of new kie coming a part ot of the canada nada raises a point tobB bly many americans t there aro are two distinct iga J not cot one in the portion 5 r rica above the canadian itou adland and its reja h ada are brought out in aad I 1 P bulletin u allaire tin dom the wash barters uart ers of the national clety spray impart in history teo graphy says the bulle tact fact that new newfoundland found land on n standing alone while r british possessions of id have united to form the canada Is probably partly ide de that newfoundlanders Newfound landers tad lad in being able to boast I 1 ue the senior british cv co ll 11 it t ot of the children of the 0 o make its home beyond aek to century land band had its settlements the seventeenth century ull ill fledged british colony arnor when canada was i bouth africa was in the and not a single thud thad landed in australia hand hits a geographical great importance for it ks kl the broad gulf into t 11 lawrence river widens anna canadas front door i moreover newfound i closest part of north the british isles being tiles from ireland it Is t the first trans atlantie I 1 1 have hate been laid to the newfoundland in 1858 and she be 17 cables now crossing bantle 11 first touch amer ler ker on newfoundland or its islets and when in 1919 1019 tally lally conquered the atlan from newfoundland that erlan and the Dri british tish ma off land iland has an area of more square miles and Is there ali halt half the ibe of great cc epting only cuba v which aich eds it in size it la Is the idi ad of the western lieal beal delolar de polar waters with its wn irn stone rising 2 to SOO here bere and there by deep ays newfoundland lias liar a larren barren appearance which tona la in many parts of the rolling roiling interior along a number of the streams e ere are re fertile valleys leys in which agriculture and stock raising flourish years yeara of fishing in late years mining stock raising the manufacture of wood nood pulp and newsprint paper and a number of other industries have been developed 1 in newfoundland but throughout its more than years of history the central story of the island might be told in one word flab boston and massachusetts have felt deeply indebted to their sacred cod but after ell that important creature came from the newfoundland banks and however valuable it has been to new england it has haa meant much more to newfoundland ani and through newfoundland found land to great britain A good case even could be made for the cod as a cl claimant almant for a place on the british coat of arms arins for that lowly flab fish in a way laid the foundation of the worldwide world wide british empire before the discovery of newfoundland found land Britis hers were of little importance as aa seafarers the great wealth of codfish which john cabets finding of the island disclosed immediately drew the lie men of the british isles out of their insularity the next year after the discovery 1408 a fleet of devon fishermen crossed the atlantic and returned laden with fish and from that time on for centuries the annual crossing and re crossIng of the atlantic took place the british king looked upon the voyages of thousands of men to and from newfoundland as the best kind of training for seamen and deliberately discouraged tile the settlement of tile the island in order to perpetuate the flab ing from a british base great britain quickly became a seafaring nation nadon the lie navy grew and with its growth the british empire spread |