Four hundred years ago a trip across the Atlantic ocean was often a one way affair. Early settlers underwent a harsh ordeal, they lived in a lawless land, they had to build new lives with virtually nothing except the most basic of utensils. Settlers had to cope with the harsh Newfoundland climate, they had to develop a pattern of trade and barter, they had to cope with pirates and brigands. However, despite all odds, some of them did succeed.

Since the early seventeenth century. Fishing stations were established on St. Pierre and the North Coast of Newfoundland. However, none of them endured.

In 1866 the invention of the cod trap at a fishing station just off the cost of Newfoundland. Beginning in the 1880's it became an important feature of the inshore fishery of both Newfoundland and Labrador. It increased the size of fishing crews and changed the fishing operations somewhat. This had an impact on the role of women in the fishery because it allowed the men to spend more time ashore and thereby relieved the women of much of the work of splitting and salting and curing the cod.

In 1628 Lord Baltimore seized French vessels at Trepassey in retaliation for French attacks on English settlements and vessels.

The rest of my page is some pic that I think are of the french when they first got here in Newfoundland.

This is the type of net that the French used when they first came here to Newfoundland to fish.

This is a picture of St. John's about 65 years ago.

This is a picture of Mosquito Cove with Carbonear Island in the distance.

If you want you can use the webcrawler search to find and learn more about the Friench in Newfoundland.