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Was Newfoundland really independent from Canada until 1949? I have never heard of that. Perhaps you meant an independent province? D.D. 12:54, 29 Oct 2003 (PST)

Yes, it really was. Now my history's not very good, but remember that Canada is a federation, and quite a young one at that. Originally, it was just Upper and Lower Canada (roughly Ontario and Quebec, respectively), New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Canada slowly grew as transportation networks allowed colonization and development of lands further West by Europeans. The other parts ("provinces" like Newfoundland) were independant colonies of Britain. CL 23:53, 29 Oct 2003 (PST)

Newfoundland was not only an independent country, but it was also run under several different types of government before joining Canada. JB 12:30 PM, 6 Jan 2005 (Newfoundland ST)

Article Title and Content

I have been bothered by the name of this article for some time and I have finally worked out it is the and. This article is really about two places, Newfoundland and Labrador. Together they do form a convenient political entity (a province) but they are really two separate regions joined for political convenience. I think the article is now reaching a stage where it should be separated into two regional parts and only the common information to both regions should be retained in this article. Unfortunately, I know precious little about this part of Canada to feel comfortable doing a region-ectomy without assistance.

How should this split be approached? Should content simply be split off into separate Labrador and Newfoundland articles, paragraph by paragraph, with the residual left here? Is there another way? Also, where it is not obvious, what places go where? -- Huttite 00:02, 22 May 2005 (EDT)

It should be corrected that GPS will work anywhere since it uses satellites, however cell phones will be out a lot of the trip due to them being ground based.