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April 1 - Joey Smallwood becomes the first premier of Newfoundland as a Canadian province. April 4 - Canada joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) May 4 - Leslie Frost becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Thomas Kennedy. June 27 - Federal election: Louis Saint Laurent 's Liberals win a fourth consecutive majority.
Joining the United States was not made an option. After bitter debate Newfoundlanders voted to join Canada in 1949 as a province. The foreign policy of Canada during the Cold War was closely tied to that of the United States. Canada was a founding member of NATO (which Canada wanted to be a transatlantic economic and political union as well).
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The 1949 Canadian federal election was held June 27, 1949 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 21st Parliament of Canada . The Liberal Party of Canada was re-elected with its fourth consecutive government, winning 191 seats (73 percent of the seats in the House of Commons), with just under 50 percent of the popular vote.
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July 22 – A second runoff referendum is held in the 1948 Newfoundland referendums; confederation with Canada is approved, leading to the eventual union between Canada and the Dominion of Newfoundland in March 1949. August 17 – Alberta election: Ernest Manning 's Social Credit Party wins a fourth consecutive majority.
1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1949th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 949th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1940s decade.
Apr 3, 2017 · The signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949, also known as the Washington Treaty, created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and revolutionized Canadian foreign policy. As Canada’s first military peacetime alliance, it was a watershed event in Canada’s new, more international role that it now played on the world stage ...
