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Article: Alison Dyer explores English settlement and French garrison in Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula.(The Fight for Fish)(includes "Tourism Newfoundland & Labrador" listings)
- Article from:
- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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The story of settlement in Newfoundland has all the makings of a hot bestseller: charismatic figures, fiery events, struggle, duplicity, success. And while many cultures fill more than a page in Newfoundland's history, two in particular used its shores in a battle for supremacy.
In the seventeenth century, the English and French were engaged in a continual back and forth of pillage and plunder with the prize being control of the lucrative cod fishery. Two settlements that figured large in this conflict were the Colony of Avalon (now Ferryland) and Plaisance (now Placentia).
A weekend getaway that includes both historic sites starts about a one-hour ...