Territory of 120,000 Square Miles in Dispute A matter affecting the future coatrol and development of a territory, as large as the United Kingdom is coming before the Privy Council very shortly in the form of a "reference" from the Governments of Newfoundland-and Quebec, The history of the affair is interesting. In the Eighteenth Century, when Newfoundland was already an important Colony and Quebec was only a small French settlement, Labrador formed party, of the then French Canadian territory. With the conquest of Canada, Labrador passed into the possession of the British, and in 1759 the Imperial Government anneed Labrador to from which Colony it is divided by, the Straits of Belle Isle.
In 1773 it was temporarily reannexed to Quebec, passed again into Newfoundland's possession in 1809, and finally, in 1876, the coastal portion of Labrador,' from the Straits of Belle Isle away to Hudson Strait (a stretch of 600 miles, with an estimated area 120,000 square miles), was erected into a Dependency of Newfoundland under Letters Patent, and the remainder of the peninsula was anneed to Quebec. The east line was thus secured to Newfoundland and the hinterland to Quebec, but jthe boundary between the two has never been clearly defined.
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