something's fishy about that slogan..."They're Newfoundland's Fisheries!"
(Official Slogan of the NNP.)
It would be similar to French Guiana, an under populated back water, probably a burden on the UK.
Newfoundland can into space.Including a space center ?![]()
Including a space center ?![]()
For geosynchronous orbits certainly, but what about sun synchronous ones?Wrong latitude.
If you're going for equatorial island launch sites then wouldn't Ascension Island be better? Aside from solid nominative determinism it's only a degree or so further north than Zanzibar, can be reached directly without having to transit either the Suez Canal or Cape of Good Hope, and has fewer natives.However, an integrated Zanzibar...![]()
If you're going for equatorial island launch sites then wouldn't Ascension Island be better? Aside from solide nominative determinism it's only a degree or so further north than Zanzibar, can be reached directly without having to transit either the Suez Canal or Cape of Good Hope, and has fewer natives.
And is literally in the middle of nowhere.
And we must remember that Britain's Rocket Engine tests were done of the Isle of Wight, which is the figurative middle-of-nowhere!Yeah but Ascension is such a good name for an island that launches rockets
It's pretty obvious no one would really care what they thought, but how would they react to becoming part of a nation on the other side of the Atlantic?At this point in the game, for the most part the Eskimos (as the latter were called around this time) and Indians (as the former were lumped with in those times) were simply ignored; their protests won't be heard until around the 1970s, around the same time as the James Bay hydro dispute in Quebec and the rise of the American Indian Movement in the US. So for the most part except for charities like the International Grenfell Association since they were routinely ignored by politicians in the Colonial Building I doubt that Whitehall would be all that enthused. Until their issues were brought to their attention ex post facto.
The First Nations had more cred in Canada than the USA...
Let’s not white wash Canadian atrocities against the First Nations.
It's pretty obvious no one would really care what they thought, but how would they react to becoming part of a nation on the other side of the Atlantic?
Down the line (and casting a butterfly net) I could see Newfoundland being a big immigration through-point.
If the UK is in Schengen, that would mean Newfoundland is in Schengen. Eastern Europeans could conceivably use Newfoundland as a way to get to Canada and the United States.
"No one, I believe, is now found to advocate direct representation of the Colonies in Parliament."--Sir Frederick Pollock https://books.google.com/books?id=aSsZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241 This was as true in the 1940's as in the 1900's. This whole thread is talking about an option that just did not exist. The idea of making overseas colonies into integral parts of the UK with representation in Westminster was just not possible, and would be doubly unthinkable for an economic burden like Newfoundland.
*cough* Malta? Even I admit Newfoundland is a stretch, but if NF voted to join the UK, I doubt the UK would ignore it.