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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).
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.
It was adopted as the dominion's anthem on 20 May 1904, until confederation with Canada in 1949. In 1980, the province of Newfoundland re-adopted the song as a provincial anthem. The "Ode to Newfoundland" continues to be heard at public events in the province; however, only the first and last verses are traditionally sung.
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1949 Canadian federal election. 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. It was the Liberals' first election in almost thirty years not under the leadership of William Lyon Mackenzie King.
