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No great future - Newfoundland resettlement

Daily Dose Monographic Images 1432 | No great future - Newfoundland resettlement 1954-1975 "When the former British dominion joined Canada in 1949, Premier Joey Smallwood struggled to provide services to the 1,200 outposts that dotted the coast. In 1954, he started the first of several centralization programs that gave cash to households from villages with “no great future” to move to government-selected “growth centers.” From 1954 to 1975, roughly 28,000 people from nearly 300 remote outposts were uprooted and resettled, many of them dragging or floating their houses to their new communities." Via the Washington Post and the Maritime History Archive, Memorial University.