A replica of John Cabot's ship 'The Matthew' sails off the coast of Newfoundland, July 1997. (Scene from Canada: A People's History) England was attempting to keep up with the Spaniards who had ...

Dr Richard Stone has worked on an off-shoot project examining seventeenth-century English settlement in Newfoundland and Tricha Passes has examined the historical reception of John Cabot in Bristol. A ...

Newfoundland - talk about 'say what you see'! Oh, and he also quite liked fish... In 1497 Italian explorer John Cabot was one of the first modern Europeans to discover North America.