Canada's History About to be Rewritten

510 year old letter points to Englishman's contact with Canada

"British historians have unearthed a letter written 510 years ago by King Henry VII that sheds startling new light on Canadian history.

The letter reveals a previously unknown English expedition to this country in 1499 and may add the name of William Weston -- an obscure shipping merchant from the west England port of Bristol -- to the pantheon of early New World explorers."

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"Specifically, the king names Weston's destination as "the new founde land" reached by Cabot in June 1497 -- the first European landfall in North America since the age of the Vikings.

That makes Henry's letter, believed to have been written on March 12, 1499, the earliest known use of the phrase that would eventually be used to designate Canada's easternmost province."

Tres interesting.