Kenneth M. Brown
Kenneth McKenzie Brown (August 3, 1887 – February 28, 1955) was a pulp and paper worker and political figure in the Dominion of Newfoundland. He represented Twillingate from 1923 to 1932 as a member of the Fisherman's Protective Union and Grand Falls-Windsor-Buchans, Grand Falls from 1932 to 1934 as a member of the United Newfoundland Party in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, Newfoundland House of Assembly. He was born in King's Cove, Bonavista Bay, the son of James Brown and Caroline Gill, and was educated there. He was a Great Grandson of William Brown who was elected as a representative of Bonavista Bay in the 1832 general Election. Brown worked as a seaman on the British Columbia coast, returning to Newfoundland in 1912 with the body of his brother Garland Gill Brown who was accidentally killed in Nanaimo British Columbia . He was employed by the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company at its mill in Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, Grand Falls. In 1 ...
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Dominion Of Newfoundland
Newfoundland was a British dominion in eastern North America, today the modern Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It was established on 26 September 1907, and confirmed by the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westminster of 1931. It included the island of Newfoundland, and Labrador on the continental mainland. Newfoundland was one of the original dominions within the meaning of the Balfour Declaration and accordingly enjoyed a constitutional status equivalent to the other dominions of the time. In 1934, Newfoundland became the only dominion to give up its self-governing status, which ended 79 years of self-government. The abolition of self-government came about because of a crisis in Newfoundland's public finances in 1932. Newfoundland had accumulated a significant amount of debt by building a railway across the island, which was completed in the 1890s, and by raising its own regiment during World War I. In November 1932, the government warned th ...
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