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	Joseph ("Joey") Smallwood - Canadian Confederation
		Joseph Roberts Smallwood was born in Gambo, Newfoundland, the son of Charles Smallwood and Mary Devanna.
		Smallwood's second chance at a political career came with the announcement of the National Convention in 1946.
		Smallwood was a major force behind the movement to include Confederation as a referendum option.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-2405-e.html (972 words)

	Smallwood, Joseph Roberts
		Smallwood, Joseph Roberts, journalist, politician, premier of Newfoundland 1949-72 (b at Gambo, Nfld 24 Dec 1900; d at St John's, Nfld 17 Dec 1991).
		Smallwood, who favoured CONFEDERATION with Canada, was elected to the Convention in 1946.
		No longer a socialist, except in his rhetoric, Smallwood from then on consorted with corporate tycoons such as John C. Doyle and John Shaheen and devoted himself to large industrial endeavours like the CHURCHILL FALLS power project, at the same time encouraging Newfoundlanders to leave isolated outports for new "resettlement" communities.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007464 (627 words)

	Joey Smallwood information - Search.com
		Joseph Roberts "Joey" Smallwood, PC, CC (December 24, 1900 – December 18, 1991), was the main force that brought Newfoundland into Confederation, and would soon become Premier of the province.
		Smallwood was born in Gambo, Newfoundland to Charles and Minnie May Smallwood.
		Smallwood remained premier until 1972, and remained a member of the House of Assembly until 1977.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Joey_Smallwood?redir=1 (725 words)

	CM Magazine: Joey Smallwood: Between Scoundrels And Saints.
		Smallwood believed it was his destiny to lead Newfoundland out of poverty and into the industrialized world of the twentieth century.
		Smallwood fought massive opposition from "the merchant princes" who had vested interests in keeping the place a colony and, often, the natural inclinations of fellow islanders.
		Through interviews with friends, family, and a variety of political observers, this video presents Joey Smallwood as a man of great strengths and equally great weaknesses.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol7/no3/smallwood.html (367 words)

	Joey Smallwood Information
		Joseph Roberts "Joey" Smallwood, PC, CC (December 24, 1900 – December 18, 1991), was the main force that brought Newfoundland into Confederation, and would soon become Premier of the province.
		Smallwood was born in Gambo, Newfoundland to Charles and Minnie May Smallwood.
		Smallwood remained premier until 1972, and remained a member of the House of Assembly until 1977.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Joey_Smallwood (678 words)

	Joey Smallwood - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joseph Roberts "Joey" Smallwood CC (December 24, 1900 - December 18, 1991) was the last Father of Confederation in Canada, bringing Newfoundland into Confederation in 1949.
		Joey Smallwood was born in Gambo, Newfoundland and grew up in St.
		The referendum was successful, and in 1949, as leader of the Liberal Party, Smallwood was elected Premier of the new province.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Joseph_R._Smallwood (359 words)

	Joey Smallwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joseph Roberts "Joey" Smallwood (December 24, 1900 - December 18, 1991) was the last Father of Confederation in Canada, bringing Newfoundland into Confederation in 1949.
		Joey Smallwood was born in Gambo, Newfoundland and Labrador and grew up in St.
		Smallwood supported joining Canada, believing that Britain no longer had any use for Newfoundland as a self-governing dominion, and that Canada would bring economic prosperity.
	www.wapipedia.com /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Joey_Smallwood (359 words)

	Town of Gambo
		Smallwood who single-handedly dragged the entire confederation campaign from a hopeless beginning into a force that challenged the existing oligarchic ruling class of the colony and defeated them in their bid to return Newfoundland to the status of an independent country.
		Smallwood’s death in 1991, he was the last living father of Confederation, a national icon and provincial hero.
		Smallwood went on to gain election to the National Convention that debated the issue of Confederation with Canada and once Newfoundland became a province of Canada Smallwood became the member for the provincial legislature representing Gambo as part of the district of Bonavista.
	www.townofgambo.com /about_smallwood.htm (398 words)

	Gizeh Shriners of British Columbia and the Yukon
		Joseph Roberts Smallwood was born in Gambo, Newfoundland December 24, 1900, the son of Charles and Mary Ellen Smallwood.
		Smallwood came from a long line of farmers and he developed a love of the land and the outdoors.
		Joey's tenure was marked by the controversial program of resettlement that forced thousands of people out of remote outport communities.
	www.shriners.bc.ca /shriners/smallwood.shtml (497 words)

	Joey Smallwood - Definition, explanation
		Joseph Roberts "Joey" Smallwood CC (December 24, 1900 - December 18, 1991) was the last Father of Confederation in Canada, bringing Newfoundland into Confederation in 1949.
		Joey Smallwood was born in Gambo, Newfoundland and grew up in St.
		The referendum was successful, and in 1949, as leader of the Liberal Party, Smallwood was elected Premier of the new province.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/j/jo/joey_smallwood.php (402 words)

	The singing Smallwood - The Ottawa Citizen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joey: The Musical opens at Centrepointe Theatre tomorrow night, and promises an informative and entertaining glimpse into the life and times of Joey Smallwood, Newfoundland's ruthlessly well-intentioned Father of Confederation and, for 23 years, the province's premier.
		But Smallwood - he's the one who said, "We are not a nation, we are a medium-sized municipality...
		Lackey, who admits he knew little about Smallwood before taking the job, says a knowledge of the subject is not necessary to enjoy the musical.
	www.goyatheatre.com /news/goya20011018.html (603 words)

	CBC: Life And Times
		Fifty years ago, Joey Smallwood led Newfoundland into Confederation and for this historic act, he is both worshipped and reviled.
		Was Joey Smallwood a saint or a scoundrel?
		Joey Smallwood: Between Scoundrels and Saints chronicles the bitterly divisive battle over Confederation and Smallwood's disastrous attempts to transform Newfoundland into an industrial giant.
	www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/smallwood.htm (293 words)

	Hist103: Joey Smallwood: Why Newfoundland Joined Confederation
		In 1946 Smallwood was elected as one of the delegates to a convention held in
		Smallwood favoured the latter, and for the next three years he led the campaign for Confederation.
		Smallwood began his premiership with great energy and introduced a number of popular measures, such as expanded medical and social services.
	www.lackenbauer.ca /Hist103/9-1_Smallwood.htm (449 words)

	Joey Smallwood - Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1969, when he was challenged by John Crosbie for the leadership of the Liberal Party, Smallwood would send Cabinet ministers to delegate selection meetings with notebooks, detailing who voted for which slate of delegates, and would bring Crosbie delegates to his residence, forcing them to sign affidavits supporting Smallwood's leadership.
		Smallwood relied heavily on the expertise of German industry in his repeated failed attempts to industrialize Newfoundland in the; post confederation period.
		Smallwood remained premier until 1972, and remained a member of the House of Assembly until 1977.
	joey-smallwood.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Joey_Smallwood (960 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS by Wayne Johnston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Smallwood, always on the make, torn between love of country and fear of failure, is as reluctant to trust the private truths of his heart as his rival and savior, Fielding-brilliant, hard-drinking, and unconventionally sexy.
		Smallwood's conversion to socialism takes place after his haunting vision of the frozen bodies of the sealers who died on the ice.
		The mystery of the anonymous letter to The Morning Post is not solved until the end of the novel, and it keeps Smallwood in the dark about some of the motivations of Fielding's character as well as her true feelings for him.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/colony_of_unrequited_dreams.asp (1089 words)

	Joey Smallwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joey Smallwood byl narozen v Gambo, Newfoundland a Labrador a vyrostl v St.
		Smallwood podporoval Kanadu spojení, věřit tomu Británie už ne měla nějaké použití pro Newfoundland jako samosprávná nadvláda a ta Kanada by přinesla ekonomickou prosperitu.
		Referendum bylo úspěšné, a v 1949 Smallwood byl zvolený premiér nové provincie.
	wikipedia.infostar.cz /j/jo/joey_smallwood.html (275 words)

	Billy Smallwood's Biography
		Joey Smallwood had been wealthy before confederation, but Canada had paid him millions to lead their confederation cause.
		Smallwoods prefer not go begging and pleasing corrupt politicians whom were once their office boys.
		Joey still believes that he was honoured have been flown to New York just to attend the signing, whereas the other grandchildren's attendence was cheapened by their going on to Florida.
	members.tripod.com /sellhome/biograph.htm (1188 words)

	The Antigonish Review 141: Herb Wyile Essay
		While Smallwood is portrayed as increasingly leaving behind his political apprenticeship in socialism, his advocacy of the initially unpopular cause of confederation with Canada develops as a pragmatic means of breaking away from England without foundering on the rocks of an unsupportable independence.
		Smallwood repeatedly and unsuccessfully attempts to shut her out of his life, associating her with a past he seeks to shed: "I hoped I would at last be free of Fielding and the nagging tug of the past, my pointless preoccupation with things as they were not and never could have been" (452).
		Smallwood must carry with him the weight of the past just as must Fielding, whose romantic and professional fortunes have been shaped and restricted by the class structure and gender assumptions that Newfoundland's colonial history has cultivated and reinforced.
	www.antigonishreview.com /bi-141/141-essay-herb-wyile.html (4727 words)

	Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's newfievisit.html
		Joey Smallwood, looking down from his cloud next to the Lord, would probably be some surprised to find Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard at the ceremony next week marking the fiftieth anniversary of Newfoundland's entry into Canada.
		Smallwood himself seems to have only got along with one Quebec premier, Daniel Johnson père, and that's only because he was able to cut a deal with him on the Churchill Falls power project.
		Smallwood had a few choice words for Lesage when the latter suggested Joey secretly was ready to cede some Labrador tundra to Quebec to seal the Churchill deal.
	www.tomifobia.com /newfievisit.html (607 words)

	Joey Smallwood
		Joseph Roberts "Joey" Smallwood (December 24, 1900 - December 18, 1991) was the youngest Father of Confederation in Canada, bringing Newfoundland into Confederation in 1949.
		The referendum was successful, and in 1949 Smallwood was elected Premier of the new province.
		He remained premier until 1972, and remained a member of the House of Assembly until 1977.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/j/jo/joey_smallwood.html (323 words)

	Jean and Joey (Bow. James Bow.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Joey was criticized for his dictatorial style and his government's mismanagement.
		Smallwood wins the convention, but there are numerous images caught on camera of Liberal party members screaming "Dictator!" as the results come in.
		When Joey was re-elected, and the political mismanagement continued, Crosbie quit the Liberal Party in disgust (along with Clyde Wells), and led a number of party members to the Newfoundland Conservatives.
	www.bowjamesbow.ca /2002/06/21/jean_and_joey.shtml (479 words)

	Yukon Books - New, Out Of Print, First Nations, Children's and Yukon Maps
		While it may be true that the character of Joey Smallwood seems, indeed, to be something out of a Dickensian novel, yet he was a real person.
		Joey’s life on the Brow, his time in the boy’s school, his dalliance with socialist politics and his attempts to find respectability within the established political parties of his youth all have that David Copperfield sort of touch to them, as of a story which is both serious and silly at the same time.
		Joey narrates tales of the foolish things he did as premier as if he had somehow been unable to stop himself from getting flim-flammed and making all those bad deals.
	www.yukonbooks.com /shop/customer/feature_bookends.php?feature_article_id=73 (796 words)

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