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| > Now there you go, again, thinking Canadians are just echoing our
| > wonderful neighbours to the south. ;-) In fact, a thanksgiving
| > feast was celebrated in Newfoundland about some years before the
| > Mayflower was even a gleam in a shipbuilder's eye (hmm does that
| > analogy really work?).
| >
| Were the celebrants french (possibly Huguenot) or English?
Tom:
At the risk of getting into trouble by extending this non-medieval
thread, let me say quickly that those visitors were English (voyage
of the Matthew and all that). BTW, France refused to solve the
huegenot problem by shipping them off to New France, so the
(in)habitants were mainly catholic (practising? hmm don't know -- ask
Dennis). This of course is all contingent on my bad memory about
Canadian history (or should I say Newfoundland history since it
didn't join the Federation until 1947 -- just before the Klingons did
;-]).
Now, in order to redeem myself for trangressing the chronological
boundaries of this list, let me point out that the first european
visitors to Newfoundland were in fact the Vikings. They eventually
left, and the remains of a settlement have been discovered
and excavated on the east coast of the Island.
Cheers
Jim
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