(Act of Parliament). An Act To Regulate the Celebration of Marriages in Newfoundland."Act not to affect Marriages already contracted, or Quakers or Jews."

Newfoundland was one of the earliest European settlements in North America. Life in the British Empire’s oldest colony, which only joined Canada in 1949, was notoriously tough, but still managed to attract a certain number of hardy settlers. It is believed that the first Jewish settler was an English Jew, engaged in the fur trade, who came to Newfoundland around 1800. During the first half of the 19th-century several other Jewish families settled in Newfoundland, primarily in the region of St. John's.