Question: When did Newfoundland become part of the country where the founder of Redpath Sugar lived?

John Redpath (1796 – March 5, 1869) was a Scots-Quebecer businessman and philanthropist who helped pioneer the industrial movement that made Montreal, Quebec the largest and most prosperous city in Canada. <SEP> Drummond studied chemistry at Edinburgh University before coming to Montreal in 1854 to work for his brother-in-law, John Redpath, at Redpath Sugar. Born in 1829 at Edinburgh, he was a younger son of the entrepreneurial stonemason, building contractor and city councillor, George Drummond, by his wife Margaret Pringle (b.c.1790). <SEP> by 1620, the fishermen of england's west country controlled most of newfoundland's east coast. in 1627, william payne, called st. john's "the principal prime and chief lot in all the whole country". the population grew slowly in the 17th century and st. john's was the largest settlement in newfoundland when english naval officers began to take censuses around 1675. the population would grow in the summers with the arrival of migratory fishermen. in 1680, fishing ships (mostly from south devon) set up fishing rooms at st. john's, bringing hundreds of irish men into the port to operate inshore fishing boats. <SEP> wallace pike (22 december 1899 – 11 april 1999) was the last known newfoundland world war i veteran. he enlisted as a volunteer in the royal newfoundland regiment as an underage soldier. he saw action on the western front as a stretcher-bearer where he was wounded twice, once in the leg and once in the hand. at the end of his military service, he held the rank of private. he was honored by newfoundland premier brian tobin as a veteran who "represented what would later become a canadian tradition in times of conflict - that of humanitarian and life-saver". france awarded pike its highest accolade, the legion of honour. the award was commemorated in 1998 by french ambassador denis bauchard who praised pike saying, "through your courage you sealed forever the eternal bonds of friendship, solidarity and affection between our two countries." wallace pike died on april 11, 1999, aged 99 – just one month after the deaths of newfoundland world war i veterans john brinson and alexander white. <SEP> In the Balfour Declaration at the 1926 Imperial Conference, Britain and its dominions agreed they were "equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations". The term "Commonwealth" was officially adopted to describe the community.These aspects to the relationship were formalised by the Statute of Westminster in 1931, which applied to Canada without the need for ratification, but Australia, New Zealand, and Newfoundland had to ratify the statute for it to take effect. Newfoundland later joined Canada as its 10th province in 1949. Newfoundland never did, as on 16 February 1934, with the consent of its parliament, the government of Newfoundland voluntarily ended and governance reverted to direct control from London. Australia and New Zealand ratified the Statute in 1942 and 1947 respectively.Although the Union of South Africa was not among the Dominions that needed to adopt the Statute of Westminster for it to take effect, two laws—the Status of the Union Act, 1934, and the Royal Executive Functions and Seals Act of 1934—were passed to confirm South Africa's status as a sovereign state.