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St. John's served as the capital city of the Colony of Newfoundland and the Dominion of Newfoundland before Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province in 1949. [164] The city now serves as the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador ; therefore, the provincial legislature is in the city. [ 165 ]
The Newfoundland National War Memorial is located on the waterfront in St. John's, at the purported site of Gilbert's landing and proclamation. 1585 -- Bernard Drake 's Newfoundland Expedition uses St. John's as a base to supply its ships as it warns English fishermen of a Spanish embargo on their trade and decimates the Spanish and Portuguese ...
St. John's NL 47°33′44″N 52°42′36″W / 47.5621°N 52.7099°W / 47.5621; -52.7099 ( Yellow Belly Corner Municipal Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador ( 5341 ),
Cabot Tower on Signal Hill Map of St. John's (1869), The Harbour, fortifications Fort William and Fort Townsend. The final battle of the Seven Years' War in North America was fought in 1762 at the Battle of Signal Hill, in which the French surrendered St. John's to a British force under the command of Lieutenant Colonel William Amherst, who renamed what was then known as "The Lookout" as ...
The story of Newfoundland (2nd ed. 1920) 192pp edition [permanent dead link ] Joseph Hatton and Moses Harvey, Newfoundland: Its History and Present Condition, (London, 1883) complete text online; Millais, John Guille. The Newfoundland Guide Book, 1911: Including Labrador and St. Pierre (1911) online edition; also reprinted 2009
St. John's from Government House, with the basilica in the background, 1851.Work on the basilica was not completed until 1855. Built between 1839–1855, the Basilica-Cathedral is located on the highest ridge overlooking the city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Fort Townshend is an archaeological site in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador that was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1951. The original military fort was built, as the headquarters of the British garrison, between 1775-1779, to secure St John's from attacks, from the French, as well as from American privateers, and it was ...
Military history of Newfoundland (18 P) Pages in category "History of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
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