Prior to incorporation with the Canadian Union Attlee appointed Sir Gordon Macdonald as the last Governor General with the brief of persuading Newfoundlanders to vote to join Canada and getting a debt ridden colony under administration since 1934 off Britain's hands. Macdonald had begun his career as a miner and had become a Labour M.P and had been a regional administrator for fuel and power in the Second World War. After Newfoundland joined the union he returned to Britain and was elevated to a peerage and appointed Paymaster general.
However the Newfoundlanders had asked for administration in 1934 and might have considered the option of seeking to join the United Kingdom had it been available. Malta had at a subsequent date considered joining the UK when Dom Mintoff had his first period at Prime Minister but it was rejexted. At an time when the post war government was about to start decolonising it may have been an embarassment but could Newfoundland have paved the way for a few other small colonies although on the verge of bankrupcy its territory also included much of Labrador with potential mineral wealth. What would have happended if Newfoundland had sought to join the UK and being admitted with a few represenatives in Westminster as with a few small French Island obtained with France?
However the Newfoundlanders had asked for administration in 1934 and might have considered the option of seeking to join the United Kingdom had it been available. Malta had at a subsequent date considered joining the UK when Dom Mintoff had his first period at Prime Minister but it was rejexted. At an time when the post war government was about to start decolonising it may have been an embarassment but could Newfoundland have paved the way for a few other small colonies although on the verge of bankrupcy its territory also included much of Labrador with potential mineral wealth. What would have happended if Newfoundland had sought to join the UK and being admitted with a few represenatives in Westminster as with a few small French Island obtained with France?