Canada Day

The inhabitants of this country are dissatisfied with the present state of things and are anxious, according to my knowledge, hardly without exception, that this country should be held to constitute part of Canada rather than Newfoundland. — Malcolm McLean, Kenemich, 19 July 1921.

According to our information, the inhabitants of Lake Melville and the Hamilton Inlet are without a single exception that we have heard of most anxious that Labrador should be held to constitute part of the Dominion of Canada. — Thomas Lea Blake, Joseph Michelin and Amon Chaulk, Lake Melville, July 1921.

There is a complete unanimity of sentiment amongst the natives of the coast and the interior inhabitants with whom I come into contact, in favour of Canada having jurisdiction over the whole of this country. The natives of the coast have never had representation in the Newfoundland legislature even though Newfoundland received from them a considerable revenue by way of customs duties. — John Blackhall, Rigolet, July 1921.

Moreover, [local residents] are greatly dissatisfied with what Newfoundland has done and, more particularly, left undone on the Labrador coast and earnestly hope that Labrador will be held to form part of Canada. — John Michelin and John Blake, Grand Village, 18 July 1921.

To the best of my knowledge every one of the Natives living in this Country earnestly wishes that this will be held to be Canadian territory. They say, "We do not think anything worse could happen to us than to be put under the jurisdiction of Newfoundland." — Raoul Thevenet, North West River, 21 July 1921.

The whole of the Resident People of the Labrador Coast feel, I think, that conditions would be much better for them, if the Coast was under Canadian rule. — Ralph Parsons, St. John's, 28 October 1921.

The Labrador natives would seem to welcome annexation to Canada. — Rev. Henry Gordon, Cartwright, 10 November 1922.