Newfoundland
Newfoundland, today known as Newfoundland and Labrador, is a province in eastern Canada,
nearly half of which is a large island.
John Cabot’s 1497 exploration of the area allowed for the development of Newfoundland
as a European fishery during the 1500s.1 Newfoundland was England’s first permanent colony in the “New World”, and it became
the tenth province, in 1949, to enter the Canadian Confederation.2
- 1. W. F. Summers, Newfoundland and Labrador, The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- 2. Ibid.