CH-0014 · RESEARCH DRAFT
English colony founded at Cupids
John Guy led an officially sanctioned English colony at Cupids, adding another colonial development alongside French settlement in Acadia.
Not publication-ready.
- Historical place
- Cupids, Newfoundland
- Present-day context
- Cupids, Newfoundland — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- English, Local Indigenous peoples
- 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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Landing of John Guy
Parks Canada · 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.