Newfoundland and Labrador was the first area of North America’s Atlantic coastline to be explored by Europeans, beginning with the Vikings in 1001. British explorer, John Cabot, arrived in Newfoundland at Bonavista in 1497 and claimed the land as a British colony for King Henry VIII.
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