CH-0007 · RESEARCH DRAFT
Seasonal European fishing at Ferryland
Seasonal fishermen from several European regions visited Ferryland before its seventeenth-century plantation; archaeological evidence also documents Beothuk occupation.
Not publication-ready. Broad sixteenth-century period, not exact start/end dates.
- Historical place
- Ferryland and North Atlantic
- Present-day context
- Ferryland and North Atlantic — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- Beothuk, Portuguese, Basque, French, English
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- 2026-10-11
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
No territorial polygon or coordinate is asserted in v1. Modern location labels are orientation aids, not historical boundaries.
No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.
Source evidence
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Ferryland walking tour introduction
Memorial University: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage · institutional history · Review: search excerpt
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-11. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Institutional interpretation is not automatically independent corroboration. Consult nation-authored histories and underlying records before editorial approval.