Constrasting colonisations in Newfoundland, Canada

What is it about?

This article describes two different understandings of colonization in the cultural memory of Newfoundland, Canada. The first (and dominant) understanding is the island of Newfoundland experiencing historical colonization in Britain and having switched colonial control to Canada in the period after the province joined Confederation in 1949. The second, more marginalized understanding is one of settler colonialism, or the historical and ongoing colonization of Indigenous peoples by settler Newfoundlanders. Understanding this second type of colonization is important to unsettling dominant understandings of colonization in Newfoundland's cultural memory.

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Why is it important?

This article is the only one to contrast the two understandings of colonization in Newfoundland using a systematic historiographical approach.