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 ...

John Cabot was in his early to mid forties when he set foot on the soil of Newfoundland, claiming the territory for Christianity in the name of the English crown. Imaginary Medallion portrait of ...