Newfoundland

Newfoundland, which was not even a province of Canada when the first rights associations emerged, did not have its own rights association until the 1960s in the form of the Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association.  As was the case with Saskatchewan and Alberta, the anniversary of the UDHR stimulated the creation of a rights association in Canada's easternmost province.  It would later become one of the founding members of the Canadian Federation of Civil Liberties and Human Rights Associations and a stalwart supporter of the organization until the Federation became defunct in 1990.  Despite being a small group in an isolated region, the NLHRA continues to operate today after more than thirty years.

 

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Primary Sources

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