Bonavista, Newfoundland
Автор: Mark Roberts NL
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The Town of Bonavista is located near Cape Bonavista on Newfoundland's northeast coast. Its name may have come from the Italian O Buon Vista ("Oh happy sight"), attributed to John Cabot, as Cape Bonavista is thought of as one of the possible places he made his first landfall in the New World in 1497.
Bonavista, one of the oldest communities in North America, was established on a flat, rocky plain southwest of the cape in the late 1500s. Settled by English West Country fish merchants, it was attacked on several occasions by the French; the cape became the northeastern terminus of the French shore. In 1726 the Church of England built in Bonavista what is claimed to be Newfoundland's first school. Bonavista was from its founding the major fishing centre of Bonavista Bay and was later important in the Labrador fishery and seal hunt.
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