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This paper highlights the difficulties faced by small provinces in the Canadian federation by examining the efforts of Premier Walter Jones of Prince Edward Island to develop his province's live beef-cattle trade with Newfoundland during the 1940s. Although Prince Edward Island was well placed to meet the escalating demand for beef in Newfoundland during the Second World War, the lack of shipping capacity proved to be a major problem. Even when subsidized shipping was secured, it ignored pre-existing, inter-island trade relationships and, as a result, central Canadian shipping interests benefited as much from Ottawa's decisions as did Prince Edward Island cattle producers. Resumé Cet article souligne les difficultés rencontrées par les petites provinces dans la Fédération canadienne, en examinant les efforts déployés dans les années 1940 par le premier ministre Walter Jones, de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, pour développer le commerce de bovins vivants de sa province avec Terre-Neuve. Bien que l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard ait été bien placée pour répondre à la demande croissante de bœuf à Terre-Neuve pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la pénurie de moyens d'expédition se révéla un problème majeur. Même lorsque des lignes de commerce maritime subventionnées furent mises en place, elles ignorèrent les relations commerciales inter-insulaires préexistantes, de sorte que les intérêts maritimes du Canada central bénéficièrent autant des décisions d'Ottawa que les producteurs bovins de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard.Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the author(s), with Acadiensis being granted a non-exclusive licence to each and every right in the work throughout the world. After publication of the work, the author(s) shall have the right to self-archive the work and to reprint the work in whole or in part in books authored by or edited by the author(s) without the payment of any fee. In these other formats, however, the author or authors are required to acknowledge the original publication of the work in the pages of the journal. In the case of any requests to reprint the work, Acadiensis will require a standard permission fee -- to be divided equally between the journal and the author. In the event that such requests are received by the author(s), the author(s) shall direct such requests to the journal.