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John Cabot
Giovanni Caboto

June 1497

The first official English voyage of exploration in the Western Ocean

Photographs of
Monument

Aspy Bay
Victoria County
Nova Scotia

GPS location: 46°56'31"N 60°27'45"W

Also see: Transtlantic Telegraph historic site 1856 Aspy Bay

This sign marks the entrance.
Photographed on 24 June 2003

Cabot Landing Park

Photographed on 24 June 2003

Cabot Landing Park at dawn

Photographed at dawn on 3 September 2003

John Cabot monument

Photographed in 1999 by Mr. W.J. Phillips

Plaque: John Cabot 1497

Photographed on 24 June 2003

Photographed on 24 June 2003

Plaque: John Cabot 1497

Photographed on 24 June 2003

Sunrise at Aspy Bay
Photographed at 6:24am on 3 September 2003

Photographed on 24 June 2003

Auxiliary monument

"...this port..." refers to Bristol, England
Photographed at dawn on 3 September 2003
John Cabot plaque by the Public Monument and Sculpture Association
http://pmsa.courtauld.ac.uk/pmsa/bl/br128.htm

Auxiliary monument

Photographed on 24 June 2003

24 June 1958
The Commanding Officer of RCAF Station Sydney, F/L GW Young, COpsO and F/O KM Morgan, CAdO, accompanied G/C NW Timmerman, CO of Station Chatham, who was representing the AOC, together with a party of 29 airmen, today attended the unveiling of the John Cabot Memorial at Cape North. The Memorial, which had been erected by the Cape Breton Historical Society, was unveiled by the Honourable Stephen Pyke, Provincial Minister of Labour and the occasion was marked by full participation by all branches of the Armed Forces. A fly-past by three Neptune aircraft was arranged by MACHQ and three Navy ships were standing off shore throughout the ceremonies.
Source: http://www.pinetreeline.org/other/other42/other42q.html

Links to Relevant Websites

The Cabot Dilemma: John Cabot's 1497 Voyage & the Limits of Historiography
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH33/croxto33.html

John Cabot article in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://37.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CA/CABOT_JOHN.htm

John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America... an 1896 book now online
http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq?doc=05393

Cape Breton Landfall Argument
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/bretonfall.html

Patent Granted by King Henry VII to John Cabot and his Sons, March 1496
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/1496patent.html

John and Sebastian Cabot by the National Maritime Museum
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/site/request/setTemplate:singlecontent/
contentTypeA/conWebDoc/contentId/135/navId/00500300f005

The John Day letter
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/johnday.html

Matthew of Bristol
http://www.matthew.co.uk/history/jcabot.html

John Cabot
http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/cabot.html

Who was John Cabot?
http://www.italian-american.com/cab1.htm

The Matthew Legacy
http://janus.northatlantic.nf.ca/~ea972579/cabot.html

Nova Scotia Trail commemorative plaque, Bristol, England
by the Public Monument and Sculpture Association
http://pmsa.courtauld.ac.uk/pmsa/bl/br251.htm

THIS TRAIL,
OFFICIALLY OPENED OCTOBER
15, 1932, BY THE PREMIER
OF NOVA SCOTIA,
IS NAMED IN HONOUR OF
JOHN CABOT
WHO LANDED AT
CAPE NORTH,
JUN 24, 1497
(signature)
PREMIER
(signature)
MINISTER
OF HIGHWAYS

In 1932, the Premier was Gordon S. Harrington,
and the Minister of Highways was Percy C. Black.

Photographs of War Memorials, Historic Monuments and Plaques in Nova Scotia
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