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(b) Canada shall be entitled to rent from the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador on terms to be mutually agreed such space in the buildings owned by the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador as is used for the services taken over by Canada and the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador shall be entitled to rent from Canada on terms to be mutually agreed such space in the buildings owned by Canada as is used for the services of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador;
(c) the division of buildings for the purposes of this Term shall be made by agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador as soon as practicable after the date of Union; and
(d) if the division in accordance with the foregoing provisions results in either Canada or the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador having a total ownership that is substantially out of proportion to the total floor space used for its services an adjustment of the division will be made by mutual agreement between the two Governments.
35. Newfoundland public works and property not transferred to Canada by or under these Terms will remain the property of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
36. Without prejudice to the legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada under the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1940, any works, property, or services taken over by Canada pursuant to these Terms shall thereupon be subject to the legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada.
Natural Resources
37. All lands, mines, minerals, and royalties belonging to Newfoundland at the date of Union, and all sums then due or payable for such lands, mines, minerals, or royalties, shall belong to the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, subject to any trusts existing in respect thereof, and to any interest other than that of the Province in the same.
Veterans
38. Canada will make available to Newfoundland and Labrador veterans the following benefits, on the same basis as they are from time to time available to Canadian veterans, as if the Newfoundland and Labrador veterans had served in His Majesty’s Canadian forces, namely,
(a) The War Veterans’ Allowance Act, 1946, free hospitalization and treatment, and civil service preference will be extended to Newfoundland and Labrador veterans who served in the First World War or the Second World War or both;
(b) Canada will assume as from the date of Union the Newfoundland pension liability in respect of the First World War, and in respect of the Second World War Canada will assume as from the date of Union the cost of supplementing disability and dependants’ pensions paid by the Government of the United Kingdom or an Allied country to Newfoundland and Labrador veterans up to the level of the Canadian rates of pensions, and, in addition, Canada will pay pensions arising from disabilities that are pensionable under Canadian law but not pensionable either under the laws of the United Kingdom or under the laws of an Allied country;
(c) The Veterans’ Land Act, 1942, Part IV of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1940, The Veterans’ Business and Professional Loans Act, and The Veterans Insurance Act will be extended to Newfoundland and Labrador veterans who served in the Second World War;
(d) A reestablishment credit will be made available to Newfoundland and Labrador veterans who served in the Second World War equal to the reestablishment credit that might have been made available to them under The War Service Grants Act, 1944, if their service in the Second World War had been service in the Canadian forces, less the amount of any pecuniary benefits of the same nature granted or paid by the Government of any country other than Canada;
(e) Canada will assume, as from the date of Union, the cost of vocational and educational training of Newfoundland and Labrador veterans of the Second World War on the same basis as if they had served in His Majesty’s Canadian forces; and
(f) Sections six, seven, and eight of The Veterans Rehabilitation Act will be extended to Newfoundland and Labrador veterans of the Second World War who have not received similar benefits from the Government of any country other than Canada.
PUBLIC SERVANTS
39. (1) Employees of the Government of Newfoundland in the services taken over by Canada pursuant to these Terms will be offered employment in these services or in similar Canadian services under the terms and conditions from time to time governing employment in those services, but without reduction in salary or loss of pension rights acquired by reason of service in Newfoundland.
(2) Canada will provide the pensions for such employees so that the employees will not be prejudiced, and the Government of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador will reimburse Canada for the pensions for, or at its option make to Canada contributions in respect of, the service of these employees with the Government of Newfoundland prior to the date of Union, but these payments or contributions will be such that the burden on the Government of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador in respect of pension rights acquired by reason of service in Newfoundland will not be increased by reason of the transfer.
(3) Pensions of employees of the Government of Newfoundland who were retired on pension before the service concerned is taken over by Canada will remain the responsibility of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
WELFARE AND OTHER PUBLIC SERVICES
40. Subject to these Terms, Canada will extend to the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, on the same basis and subject to the same terms and conditions as in the case of other provinces of Canada, the welfare and other public services provided from time to time by Canada for the people of Canada generally, which, in addition to the veterans’ benefits, unemployment insurance benefits, and merchant seamen benefits set out in Terms thirty-eight, forty-one, and forty-two respectively, include family allowances under The Family Allowances Act, 1944, unemployment insurance under The Unemployment Insurance Act, 1940, sick mariners’ benefits for merchant seamen and fishermen under the Canada Shipping Act, 1934, assistance for housing under The National Housing Act, 1944, and, subject to the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador entering into the necessary agreements or making the necessary contributions, financial assistance under The National Physical Fitness Act for carrying out plans of physical fitness, health grants, and contributions under the Old Age Pensions Act for old age pensions and pensions for the blind.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
41. (1) Subject to this Term, Canada will provide that residents of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador in insurable employment who lose their employment within six months prior to the date of Union and are still unemployed at that date, or who lose their employment within a two-year period after that date, will be entitled for a period of six months from the date of Union or six months from the date of unemployment, whichever is the later, to assistance on the same scale and under the same conditions as unemployment insurance benefits.
(2) The rates of payment will be based on the individual’s wage record for the three months preceding his loss of employment, and to qualify for assistance a person must have been employed in insurable employment for at least thirty per centum of the working days within the period of three months preceding his loss of employment or thirty per centum of the working days within the period since the date of Union, whichever period is the longer.
MERCHANT SEAMEN
42. (1) Canada will make available to Newfoundland and Labrador merchant seamen who served in the Second World War on British ships or on ships of Allied countries employed in service essential to the prosecution of the war, the following benefits, on the same basis as they are from time to time available to Canadian merchant seamen, as if they had served on Canadian ships, namely,
(a) disability and dependants’ pensions will be paid, if disability occurred as a result of enemy action or counteraction, including extraordinary marine hazards occasioned by the war, and a Newfoundland and Labrador merchant seaman in receipt of a pension from the Government of the United Kingdom or an Allied country will be entitled, during residence in Canada, to have his pension raised to the Canadian level; and
(b)
free hospitalization and treatment, vocational training, The Veterans’ Land Act, 1942, and The Veterans Insurance Act will be extended to disability pensioners.
(2) Vocational training, Part IV of The Unemployment Insurance Act, 1940, and The Veterans Insurance Act will be extended to Newfoundland and Labrador merchant seamen who were eligible for a Special Bonus or a War Service Bonus, on the same basis as if they were Canadian merchant seamen.
(3) The Unemployment Insurance Act, 1940, and The Merchant Seamen Compensation Act will be applied to Newfoundland and Labrador merchant seamen as they are applied to other Canadian merchant seamen.
CITIZENSHIP
43. Suitable provision will be made for the extension of the Canadian citizenship laws to the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
DEFENCE ESTABLISHMENTS
44. Canada will provide for the maintenance in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador of appropriate reserve units of the Canadian defence forces, which will include the Newfoundland Regiment.
ECONOMIC SURVEY
45. (1) Should the Government of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador institute an economic survey of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador with a view to determining what resources may profitably be developed and what new industries may be established or existing industries expanded, the Government of Canada will make available the services of its technical employees and agencies to assist in the work.
(2) As soon as may be practicable after the date of Union, the Government of Canada will make a special effort to collect and make available statistical and scientific data about the natural resources and economy of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, in order to bring such information up to the standard attained for the other provinces of Canada.
OLEOMARGARINE
46. (1) Oleomargarine or margarine may be manufactured or sold in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador after the date of the Union and the Parliament of Canada shall not prohibit or restrict such manufacture or sale except at the request of the Legislature of the Province of Newfoundland, but nothing in this Term shall affect the power of the Parliament of Canada to require compliance with standards of quality applicable throughout Canada.
(2) Unless the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides or unless the sale and manufacture in, and the interprovincial movement between, all provinces of Canada other than Newfoundland and Labrador, of oleomargarine and margarine, is lawful under the laws of Canada, oleomargarine or margarine shall not be sent, shipped, brought, or carried from the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador into any other province of Canada.
INCOME TAXES
47. In order to assist in the transition to payment of income tax on a current basis Canada will provide in respect of persons (including corporations) resident in Newfoundland at the date of Union, who were not resident in Canada in 1949 prior to the date of Union, and in respect of income that under the laws of Canada in force immediately prior to the date of Union was not liable to taxation, as follows:
(a) that prior to the first day of July, 1949, no payment will be required or deduction made from such income on account of income tax;
(b) that for income tax purposes no person shall be required to report such income for any period prior to the date of Union;
(c) that no person shall be liable to Canada for income tax in respect to such income for any period prior to the date of Union; and
(d) that for individuals an amount of income tax for the 1949 taxation year on income for the period after the date of Union shall be forgiven so that the tax on all earned income and on investment income of not more than $2,250 will be reduced to one-half the tax that would have been payable for the whole year if the income for the period prior to the date of Union were at the same rate as that subsequent to such date.
STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER
48. From and after the date of Union the Statute of Westminster, 1931, shall apply to the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador as it applies to the other provinces of Canada.
SAVING
49. Nothing in these Terms shall be construed as relieving any person from any obligation with respect to the employment of Newfoundland labour incurred or assumed in return for any concession or privilege granted or conferred by the Government of Newfoundland prior to the date of Union.
COMING INTO FORCE
50. These terms are agreed to subject to their being approved by the Parliament of Canada and the Government of Newfoundland; shall take effect notwithstanding the Newfoundland Act, 1933, or any instrument issued pursuant thereto; and shall come into force immediately before the expiration of the thirty-first day of March, 1949, if His Majesty has theretofore given His Assent to an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland confirming the same.
Signed in duplicate at Ottawa this eleventh day of December, 1948.
On behalf of Canada:
(signed) LOUIS S. ST. LAURENT
(signed BROOKE CLAXTON
On behalf of Newfoundland:
(signed) ALBERT J. WALSH
(signed) F. GORDON BRADLEY
(signed) PHILIP GRUCHY
(signed) JOHN P. MCEVOY
(signed) JOSEPH R. SMALLWOOD
(signed) G.A. WINTER
SCHEDULE
In this Schedule the expression “District” means District as named and delimited in the Act 22 George V, Chapter 7 entitled “An Act to amend Chapter 2 of the Consolidated Statutes of Newfoundland (Third Series) entitled ‘Of the House of Assembly’ ”
Grand Falls-White Bay: shall consist of the Districts of White Bay, Green Bay, and Grand Falls, and all the territory within a radius of five miles of the Railway Station at Gander, together with the Coast of Labrador and the Islands adjacent thereto.
Bonavista-Twillingate: shall consist of the Districts of Twillingate, Fogo, Bonavista North, and Bonavista South, but shall not include any part of the territory within a radius of five miles from the Railway Station at Gander.
Trinity-Conception: shall consist of the Districts of Trinity North, Trinity South, Carbonear-Bay de Verde, Harbour Grace, and Port de Grave.
St. John’s East: shall consist of the District of Harbour MainBell Island and that part of the Province bounded as follows, that is to say: By a line commencing at a point where the centre line of Beck’s Cove Hill intersects the North shore of the Harbour of St. John’s, thence following the centre line of Beck’s Cove Hill to the centre of Duckworth Street, thence westerly along the centre line of Duckworth Street to the centre of Theatre Hill, thence following the centre line of Theatre Hill to the Centre of Carter’s Hill, thence following the centre line of Carter’s Hill and Carter’s Street to the centre of Freshwater Road, thence following the centre line of Freshwater Road to its intersection with the centre of Kenmount Road, and thence along the centre line of Kenmount Road to its intersection with the North Eastern boundary of the District of Harbour MainBell Island, thence along the said North Eastern boundary of the District of Harbour MainBell Island to the shore of Conception Bay and thence following the coastline around Cape St. Francis and on to the Narrows of St. John’s Harbour and continuing along by the North Shore of St. John’s Harbour to a point on the North shore of the said Harbour intersected by the centre line of Beck’s Cove Hill, the point of commencement.
St. John’s West: shall consist of the Districts of Placentia St. Mary’s and Ferryland, and that part of the Province bounded as follows, that is to say: By a line commencing at the Motion Head of Petty Harbour and running in a straight line to the Northern Goulds Bridge (locally known as Doyle’s Bridge) thence following the centre line of Doyle’s Road to Short’s Road, thence in a straight line to a point one mile west of Quigley’s, thence in a straight line to the point where the North Eastern boundary of the District of Harbour MainBell Island intersects Kenmount Road, thence along the centre line of Kenmount Road and Freshwater Road to Carter’s Street, thence down the centre line of Carter’s Street and Carter’s
Hill to Theatre Hill and thence along the centre line of said Theatre Hill to the centre line of Duckworth Street and thence easterly along the centre line of Duckworth Street to the top of Beck’s Cove Hill, thence from the centre line of said Beck’s Cove Hill to the shore of St. John’s Harbour and thence following the shore of St. John’s Harbour and, passing through the Narrows by the North of Forth Amherst and thence following the coastline Southerly to the Motion Head of Petty Harbour, the point of commencement.
Burin-Burgeo: shall consist of the Districts of Placentia West, Burin, Fortune Bay-Hermitage, and Burgeo and La Poile and all the unorganized territory bounded on the North and West by the District of Grand Falls, on the South by the Districts of Burgeo and La Poile and Fortune Bay-Hermitage, on the East by the Districts of Trinity North, Bonavista South and Bonavista North.
Humber-St. George’s: consist of the Districts of St. George’s Port au Port, Humber, and St. Barbe, and all the unorganized territory bounded on the North by the District of Humber, on the East by the District of Grand Falls, on the South by the District of Burgeo and La Poile, and on the West by the District of St. George’s-Port au Port.
APPENDIX F
“Keep Up the Fince,”
Harold Paddock
1. h’Uncle Jake Rowser was proud o’ de part
’e’d played in de birt’ of our village called Beau