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This takes some of the wind out of the sails of John Cabot, the Venetian navigator who claimed Canada’s eastern seaboard for England’s Henry VII in 1497.
Local folklore insists that the name (not to be confused with Saint John, New Brunswick) comes from the saint’s day of John the Baptist, June 24, when John Cabot arrived here in 1497.
The Cabot Tower atop the hill was built in 1897, fourth centenary of Cabot’s landing and diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria.
The event is commemorated by a modest exhibit in the Cabot Tower.
“But on your way, look out for Newfoundland,” seems to have been the slogan of the old North Atlantic navigators, from the good Irish Abbot Brendan in the sixth century and the wild Norsemen in the 11th, to all the Basque, French, Spanish, and Portuguese fishermen who preceded explorer John Cabot, paid £10 by Henry VII for finding “the new isle” in 1497.