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Title: Canada, Britain's largest colony; with a chapter on Newfoundland and Labrador;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Haydon, Arthur Lincoln, 1872-
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Publisher: London, Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ththeir crews of Vikings. The old tale goes thatthese Norwegian rovers were driven out of theircourse during a voyage from Greenland, aboutthe year iioo, and thrown on to the shores of ableak, rocky country which they named Helluland.This, there is every reason to believe, wasLabrador. They also came to a place called by them Mark-land (that is, the wooded land), and this isassumed to have been the forest-clad shores ofeither Cape Breton Island or Nova Scotia. All this is traditional, however, and has noother authority than the old Icelandic Sagas, sowe can only say that it is just possible that theseearly Norsemen did make a temporary settlementhere and there on the North American coast. The eabots. To John Cabot, a Venetian navigator of thefifteenth century who had settled in Bristol, belongsthe honour of having been the first among thevoyagers of his time to touch upon American shores.Believing in the existence of a north-west searoute to India and China, he laid his project before
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4 CANADA. King Henry VII., and was commissioned by thatmonarch to set out on a voyage of discovery.He sailed, reached North America, saw nothingof the passage he was in quest of, and returnedhome with some natives from Newfoundland. This was in 1497 ; in the following year, withhis son Sebastian, he made another voyage, inwhich he coasted Nova Scotia and sailed furthersouth. Other voyages were made from time to time,but as they brought no results in rich treasure,interest in the newly discovered lands across theseas soon flagged. The only Englishmen whofollowed in the Cabots wake were a few daringmariners who were allured by the well-stockedfishing-grounds off the Newfoundland banks. Portuguese and French. The next visitors to North America of any notewere the Portuguese navigators, Caspar and MiguelCortereal. In 1500 the former rediscovered New-foundland and the Labrador coast. On the heels of the Portuguese came someFrench sailors from the shores of Brittany, CapeBreton to this day

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