From 1670, through the Hudson's Bay Company, the English also laid claim to Hudson Bay, and its drainage basin ( known as Rupert's Land ), and operated fishing settlements in Newfoundland.

Although Innu have been only in Sheshatshiu since fur trading posts were established by the Hudson's Bay Company in Northwest River in the mid-1700s and only in Davis Inlet / Natuashish since the Moravians set up along the Inuit Coast in 1771, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams struck a deal on September 26, 2008, with Labrador's Innu to permit construction of a hydroelectric megaproject to proceed on the proposed Lower Churchill site.

In North America, France ceded to Great Britain its claims to the Hudson's Bay Company territories in Rupert's Land, Newfoundland and Acadia.

In 1858, Alexander Tilloch Galt made a motion in the Legislature at Kingston recommending that the Province of Canada ask the British Government to create a federal union of British North America ( Canada East and West, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia ) and Rupert's Land ( owned by the Hudson's Bay Company ).

From 1670, through the Hudson's Bay Company, the English also laid claim to Hudson Bay and its drainage basin ( known as Rupert's Land ), and operated fishing settlements in Newfoundland.

Instead, the territory consisted of the United Province of Canada ( parts of modern southern Ontario and Quebec ) and the separate colonies of Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia, as well as a crown territory administered by the Hudson's Bay Company called Rupert's Land.

McLean was trader of the Hudson's Bay Company and he named the river the Hamilton River, after Newfoundland Governor, Sir Charles Hamilton.

In 1766, Reverend Laurence Coughlan arrived in Newfoundland and opened a school at Black Head in Conception Bay.

In 1907, Marconi established the first commercial transatlantic radio communications service, between Clifden, Ireland and Glace Bay, Newfoundland.

It was laid between Gallanach Bay, near Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland between 1955 and 1956.

Samuel Eliot Morison ( 1971 ) suggested the southern part of Newfoundland ; Erik Wahlgren ( 1986 ) Miramichi Bay in New Brunswick ; and Icelandic climate specialist Pall Bergthorsson ( 1997 ) proposed New York City.

* November 2 – A giant squid, 6. 1 meters long, washes ashore at Thimble Tickle Bay in Newfoundland.

France cedes Newfoundland, Acadia, Hudson Bay and St Kitts to Britain.

It was laid between Gallanach Bay, near Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland between 1955 and 1956 by the cable ship Monarch.

He is renowned as the first European since the Norse expeditions to North America around AD 1000 to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay in 1524.

At its peak in 1712 ( before the Treaty of Utrecht ), the territory of New France extended from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.

The territory was then divided in five colonies, each with its own administration: Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland ( Plaisance ), and Louisiana.

The Treaty of Utrecht resulted in the relinquishing of French claims to mainland Acadia, the Hudson Bay and Newfoundland colonies, and the establishment of the colony of Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) as the successor to Acadia.

For the Canadian town, see Red Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador.

* Cavendish Bay, Newfoundland

This concept was advocated by Reinhardt for the emplacement of the Semail Complex in Oman and argued by Church and Church and Stevens for the emplacement of the Bay of Islands sheet in western Newfoundland.

At its peak in 1712 ( before the Treaty of Utrecht ), the territory of New France extended from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.

The territory was then divided into five colonies, each with its own administration: Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland ( Plaisance ), and Louisiana.

The Treaty of Utrecht resulted in the relinquishing of French claims to mainland Acadia, the Hudson Bay and Newfoundland, and the establishment of the colony of Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) as the successor to Acadia.

Although the treaty turned Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and part of Acadia ( peninsular Nova Scotia ) over to Great Britain, France remained in control of Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) ( which also administered Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ).

Along with other Basque towns of Gipuzkoa and Labourd, they were largely responsible for the partial extinction of North Atlantic Right Whales in the Bay of Biscay and of the first unstable settlement by Europeans in Newfoundland.

The largest puffin colony in the western Atlantic ( estimated at more than 260, 000 pairs ) can be found at the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, south of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

** Holyrood Thermal Generating Station, Conception Bay, Newfoundland

After the French ceded its colonies on Newfoundland and the Acadian mainland to the British by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, the French relocated the population of Plaisance, Newfoundland to Île Royale and the French garrison was established in the central eastern part at Ste.

Newfoundland French was deliberately discouraged by the Newfoundland government through the public schools during the mid-20th-century, and only a small handful of mainly elderly people are still fluent in the French-Newfoundland dialect.

Historically, Newfoundland was also home to unique varieties of French, and Irish, as well as the now-extinct Beothuk language.

The name Newfoundland is derived from English as " New Found Land " ( a translation from the Portuguese Terra Nova, and still reflected in the province's French language name, " Terre Neuve ").

In the far north, the English on several occasions sent fleets to raid French settlements and destroy fishing stages on Newfoundland, but suffered the loss of St. John's in 1708 / 9 after the French made an overland march from Plaisance.

Pitt's refusal to grant the French a share in Newfoundland proved the biggest obstacle to peace, as Pitt declared he would rather lose the use of his right arm than give the French a share there and later said he would rather give up the Tower of London than Newfoundland.

The descent of the French on St. John's, Newfoundland, 1762.

The notable exception was the French seizure of St. John's, Newfoundland.

* French Canadian Pea Soup Quebec soupe aux pois vs. Newfoundland pea soup

Verrazzano gave the names Francesca and Nova Gallia to that land between New Spain and English Newfoundland, thus promoting French interests.

French interest in the New World began with Francis I of France, who in 1524 sponsored Giovanni da Verrazzano to navigate the region between Florida and Newfoundland in hopes of finding a route to the Pacific Ocean.

He participated in a 1762 attempt by the French to gain control of Newfoundland, escaping with the fleet when the British arrived in force to drive them out.

The battle saw the British Army, supported by contingents from British imperial territories, including Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Canada, India and South Africa, mount a joint offensive with the French Army against the German Army, which had occupied large areas of France since its invasion of the country in August 1914.

The Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol began to settle Newfoundland and Labrador at Cuper's Cove as far back as 1610, and Newfoundland had also been the subject of a French colonial enterprise.