Ferryland
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Ferryland is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador on the Avalon Peninsula. According to the 2021 Statistics Canada census, its population is 371.
Welcome sign
Excavated foundation of mansion house.
English overseas possessions
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The English overseas possessions, sometimes referred to as the English Empire, comprised a variety of overseas territories and colonies that were conquered or otherwise acquired by the Kingdom of Engl
Ferryland
…name.) The land was granted by charter to the London and Bristol Company in the 1610s and the vicinity became the location of a number of short-lived English colonies at Cuper's Cove, Bristol's Hope, and Renews and adjoined the colony of South Falkland. In 1620 the territory was granted to George Calvert, 1st Baron…
A replica of Cabot's ship the Matthew
Queen Elizabeth, portrait immortalizing the English defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)
400th anniversary re-enactment of the English settlers arriving in Virginia in 1607
Captain John Smith, "Admiral of New England"