excerpts from the 1955 lectures of C.R. Fay published in 1956 pages 70 and 71 Never has a little country--little in population, if not in size--had such adequate persons to serve it as such a juncture: James Cook, cartographer and naval explorer: George Cartwright, the homesteading pioneer of the Labrador: David Buchan and William Cormack, the explorers of the hinterland and would-be guardians of its contents. These four disclosed and delineated the limits of Newfoundland (including Newfoundland-Labrador). And they prepared the way for builders of another--architects of justice and democracy. But before we come to the first and greatest of the master-builders, let us note that he had a precursor at the settlement which accompanied the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. 1718... �A new map of Newfoundland from Cape St. Mary to Cape Lahun, with a survey of the late French part of Newfoundland by Capt. Taverner.� Lahun presumably is our Lawn in Burin peninsula; and so this survey was of Placentia Bay. The Board of Trade Minutes read here:-- �That Mr. Gaudy submits droughts of Coasts and Harbors, Captain Taverner having taken over the late French part of Newfoundland, but some French remain behind: and Guernsey men use tackle belonging to St. Malo. That the having inhabitants there (Capt. Taverner thinks) was a benefit; for that they were cloathed from Great Britain, and that none of the ships belonging to the western part of England, except Bydeford and Barnstaple, depend entirely on fishing, but take as many passengers and what freight they could, with some goods of their own, and relied on the chance of the Fishing to make good their voyages, carrying as few seamen or fishermen at their own charge as they can. That Bydeford and Barnstaple carry indeed their complement of seamen and fishermen, but generally return with few, and depending altogether on the Fishery, they carry little else besides tackle and butter--but the ships of these last two mentioned ports afford their fish cheaper by means of their method of hiring their men by shares of fish and not by wages in money, as has been the practice with others since the late wars with France. That there were few of our ships that had yet gone to hose parts of Newfoundland lately possessed by the French: the ships of Poole commonly frequent the North part: those of Bristol about Carbonear: those of Dartmouth about the Bay of Bulls: of Bydeford and Barnstaple about Renews and Fermuse, to which places they return on account of utensils they leave there.� So reads the minute. There is the mark of the take-over in the place names, but none so unhappy as that which was to turn Baie d�Espoir into Bay Despair. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com