Chapter 7
A Path Forward
When explorer John Cabot sailed into the waters off of what is now eastern Canada, he and his crew “discovered” what the indigenous Beothuk already knew was there: a sea teeming with fish. On Cabot’s return to England, word quickly spread: “They assert that the sea there is swarming with fish, which can be taken not only with the net, but in baskets let down with a stone, so that it sinks in the water.” Cabot’s son, Sebastian, would later recount finding “so great a quantity of a certain kind of great fish . . . that at times they even stayed the passage of his ships.”1
Soon, English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French ships were making regular trips to the waters of Newfoundland’s Grand Banks. For the next five hundred ...
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