id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 18636 Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of The Story of Newfoundland .txt text/plain 41936 1989 65 view Newfoundland is the oldest of the English colonies, for our brave admirable sense of proportion, that the fishing banks of Newfoundland Newfoundland, being the oldest of all the English colonies, stood for of this great land, which he named Baccallaos [cod-fish country], he Newfoundland trade, but the English and French soon distanced all the first colony to Newfoundland, landed at Conception Bay, and Admiral Sir John Leake destroyed a number of French fishing-vessels France to fortify any place in the said island of Newfoundland, or to at St. John's in the island of Newfoundland," which Court was in the British colonies, and in Newfoundland friction soon arose. Colonies had informed the Governor that "Her Majesty's Government has Britain of Newfoundland fishing rights, local feeling was strong and letter were questioned by the Newfoundland Government, but Newfoundland and the French colony of St. Pierre and Miquelon. ./cache/18636.txt ./txt/18636.txt