Exploration and Settlement

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Exploration and Settlement: Introduction

• Early Exploration
  • Geographical Knowledge
  • Navigation Methods
  • Before Cabot
    • Irish Monks and the Voyage of St. Brendan
    • Pre-Cabot Bristol Explorers
    • Other Claimants
    • The Norse in the Atlantic
  • John Cabot
    • The History of Bristol to 1497
      • Bristol: Bristol Voyages
      • Bristol: Cabot in Bristol
    • 1497 Voyage
      • Evidence for a Northern Landfall
        • 1496 Patent
        • Pasqualigo Letter
        • Soncino Letters
        • John Day Letter
      • Cape Breton Landfall Argument
      • Support for a Newfoundland Landfall
      • The Matthew
    • 1498 Voyage
      • The Grates Cove Tradition
      • Dispatch of Pedros de Ayala
      • Second Letters Patent to John Cabot
    • Uncovering Cabot: The Ruddock Riddle
    • New Findings
    • Sebastian Cabot
    • Early Exploration Bibliography
    
    
• Later Exploration
  • Portuguese Explorers
  • English & French Exploration
  • Early Cartography of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • 18th & 19th Century Exploration
    • James Cook
      • James Cook's Charts of Newfoundland and Labrador
    • The Newfoundland Interior: “The Beothuk Phase”
    • Exploring the Newfoundland Interior: Geology and Communications
    • Labrador: The French Period to 1763
      • Louis Fornel's Narrative
    • Labrador Moravian Voyages
  • Early 20th Century Exploration
    • Bob Bartlett
      • The North Pole
      • The Karluk Disaster
  • Later Exploration Bibliography
  
  

• European Migratory Fishery
  • Origins of Migratory Fishery
  • 16th C. Basque Whaling
  • 16th C. International Fishery
  • 17th C. English Migratory Fishery
    • Organizing the Migratory Fishery
    • Annual Voyage
    • Family & Politics
      • Master's Instructions
  • 18th C. English Fishery
    • Three 18th Century Newfoundland Towns: Trepassey, Trinity and St. John's
  • Labrador Fishery
  • Effect on Settlement Patterns
  • Indigenous Relations
  • Decline of Migratory Fishery
  • European Migratory Fishery Bibliography
  
  
• Sponsored Settlement
  • Early Settlement Schemes
  • The Cupids Colony and John Guy
  • Vaughan and New Cambriol
  • Cary and South Falkland
  • Calvert and the Colony of Avalon
  • Kirke and the Newfoundland Plantation
  • The French Settlement of Placentia
  • Sponsored Settlement Bibliography
  
  
• Voluntary Settlement
  • Settlement and the Migratory Fishery
  • Effects of War on Early Settlement
  • Early Settlement of St. John's
  • Social History, 1760-1830
    • Eyewitness Accounts of Early Outport Life
  • Voluntary Settlement Bibliography
  
  

• French Presence in Newfoundland and Labrador
  • 16th Century International Fishery
  • 17th Century French Fishery
  • 18th Century French Fishery
  • 19th Century French Fishery
  • Anglo-French Warfare
    • Nine Years War
    • Spanish Succession
      • Treaty of Utrecht
    • Seven Years War
      • Treaty of Paris
    • American Revolution
      • Initial Impact
      • Rejected
      • Opportunity
      • Long Term Impact
      • Treaty of Versailles
    • French Revolution
      • Military Aspects
        • Mutinies
        • Between Revolutions
        • Anglo-French War Impact
        • End of Migratory Fishery
    • Newfoundland Society
      • Immigration
      • Settlement and Society
      • St. John's in the 18th Century
      • War Aftermath
    • Military Garrisons
      • Defence of the Fisheries
      • 18th Century Garrison Life
      • 19th Century Garrison Life
  • St. Pierre et Miquelon
    • Discovery to 1713
    • English Period 1714-1764
    • Restoration to France 1763-1815
    • From 1816 to the Present
    • Boundary Dispute
  • Placentia
    • Population
    • Planters
    • Seasonal Fishermen
    • Economy
    • Plaisance Garrison
    • Military Forts
    • Anglo-French Conflict
  • French Shore
    • “Entente Cordiale”
      • Newfoundland House Debate, April 21, 1904
      • Newfoundland Council Debate, April 21, 1904
      • Newfoundland House Debate, April 22 & 26, 1904
      • Newfoundland House Debate, April 27, 1904
      • Entente Cordiale Text
  • French Presence in Newfoundland Bibliography

• Archives and Special Collections
  • The Effie M. Morrissey
  • The Hubbard Expedition to Labrador
  • William Keen and the Capture of St. John's
  • William Reese Company Manuscript
  • Archives and Special Collections Table of Contents
  
  

• Colony of Avalon Articles and Documents