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	Ferryland
		It has been written as Forillon, Foriland, and considered by some as a corruption of Veralum which was the ancient name of St. Alban's in England.
		Ferryland was first visited by French fishermen as early as 1504 and used by them as a base for the summer fishery.
		Englishmen then came and build temporary quarters at Ferryland, and so a century passed until Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, applied in 1621 for a royal charter to colonize a portion of Newfoundland.
	www.nfld.com /nfld/tourism/ferryland/ferryland.html (158 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ferryland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ferryland in Newfoundland is part of the Avalon Peninsula on the southern shore of the island south of St.
		In 1762, Governor Graves fortified and garrisoned the Isle of Blois, at the mouth of Ferryland Harbour.
		Ferryland is the capital of the district, and in 1845 contained a population of 486.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ferryland (359 words)

	Ferryland
		The name Ferryland is probably derived from the French (forillon) or Portuguese (farelhão) for "steep rock" or "reef," and was first noted on maps as early as 1529.
		A seasonal fishing station for migratory European fishing ships in the 1600s, Ferryland was founded in 1621 as the capital of the English colony of Avalon by George CALVERT, first Lord Baltimore.
		Before the COD moratorium, fishing was the mainstay of the town.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0002778 (0 words)

	Ferryland
		siècle, Ferryland est une station de pêche saisonnière pour les bateaux migrateurs européens.
		En 1638, Ferryland est accaparée de force par David KIRKE et demeure en possession de sa famille immédiate jusqu'en 1708, malgré les revendications des héritiers de Calvert.
		Aujourd'hui, Ferryland est un centre régional d'administration et de services.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=F1ARTF0002778 (0 words)

	Flanker Press - Ferryland: the Colony of Avalon by B. D. Fardy
		Ferryland is one of the oldest settlements in Newfoundland and Labrador.
		Established in 1620 as Newfoundland’s second successful colony by Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, Ferryland was first recorded on maps as early as 1550 with the French name Forillon, meaning cape or point.
		Ferryland’s long history of almost 500 years has been a colourful and at times difficult one, but the community survived all hardships and remains today the vibrant and historical “Capital” of the “Shore.”
	www.flankerpress.com /ferryland.shtml (0 words)

	Ferryland: Freebairn/Coffey House (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Peter Tessier married a daughter of Robert Carter of Ferryland.
		Peter Tessier may have constructed a stone house on the Ferryland property as a country retreat.
		A native of B ronh ill, Dumbartonshire, Sco tland, Free bairn spent much of his life as a medical doctor in Ferryland where he also acted as magistrate.
	www.wordplay.com /tourism/communities/ten_historic_towns/img/003.html (194 words)

	Newfoundland Books Ferryland: The Colony of Avalonia By B. D. Fardy
		Ferryland is one of the oldest settlements in Newfoundland and Labrador.
		Established in 1620 as Newfoundland’s second successful colony by Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, Ferryland was first recorded on maps as early as 1550 with the French name Forillon, meaning cape or point.
		Ferryland’s long history of almost 500 years has been a colourful and at times difficult one, but the community survived all hardships and remains today the vibrant and historical “Capital” of the “Shore.”
	www.tidespoint.com /books/ferryland.shtml (326 words)

	Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century, by Peter E. Pope. Introduction. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ferryland has been continuously inhabited since its founding as the centerpiece of the Province of Avalon in 1621, when James I granted a proprietary patent to his secretary of state, Sir George Calvert, later Lord Baltimore.
		Ferryland remained the most important of the south Avalon settlements and, considered with nearby Caplin Bay, one of the larger settlements on Newfoundland's English Shore—ranking with Carbonear, Bay de Verde, and Old Perlican—after St. John's.
		Ferryland became a kind of colonial capital in the mid-seventeenth century, during the heyday of the Newfoundland Plantation.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/pope_fish.html (1647 words)

	Ferryland
		siècle, Ferryland est une station de pêche saisonnière pour les bateaux migrateurs européens.
		En 1638, Ferryland est accaparée de force par David KIRKE et demeure en possession de sa famille immédiate jusqu'en 1708, malgré les revendications des héritiers de Calvert.
		siècle, Ferryland est un important centre d'approvisionnement et de pêche, dirigé par des marchands de la localité et de St. John's.
	www.canadianencyclopedia.ca /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=F1ARTF0002778 (284 words)

	Ferryland History
		Englishmen then came and built temporary quarters at Ferryland, and so a century passed until Sir George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, applied in 1621 for a royal charter to colonize a portion of Newfoundland.
		Wynne thus described the progress made up to late autumn of 1622; "The range of buildings was forty four foot of length and fifteen foot of breadth, containing a hall, entry, cellar, four chambers, kitchen, staircases and passages.
		Her husband decided to abandon Ferryland and obtained a grant of land in Virginia, whither he and many of the colonists removed.
	www.members.shaw.ca /cjmorry/ferryland_history.htm (1473 words)

	ROBERT SWAIN DESCENDANTS - pafg02.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		She died on Jun 15 1891 in Caplin Bay, NF, and was buried in Ferryland RC Cemetery, NF.
		She died on Sep 4 1909 in Calvert, NF, and was buried in Ferryland RC Cemetery, NF.
		She died on Jan 28 1944 in Calvert, NF, and was buried in 1944 in Ferryland, RC Cemetery, Calvert, NF.
	home.comcast.net /~SMLOPES/pafg02.htm (815 words)

	Investigating Ferryland - Archaeology - Colony of Avalon
		At Ferryland there are several versions of a legend about a long-lost well, with a different location for each over an area of several acres.
		At Ferryland, refuse discarded by the most humble fishing family, never mentioned in historical records or remembered in legend, stands as much chance of being preserved as does refuse discarded by the gentry of Avalon and the Pool Plantation.
		When this new information is interpreted and added to existing knowledge, of whatever kind, the result is an ever-changing and ever-increasing understanding of the settlement of Ferryland from the early 1500s until the present day.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /avalon/arch (0 words)

	Family Trees of Calvert (Caplin Bay), Newfoundland
		However, looking on the bright side, Ferryland District has been blessed with quite a lot of secondary documents, some of which have survived from the late 1700s.
		It is also hoped that the publication of these family trees may also bring to light additional resource information that individuals are holding privately or the existence of which I have not yet been made aware.
		Some members of the Ferryland family settled in Devon, England and Calvert (Caplin Bay) before later moving to Bonavista and Trinity, Newfoundland and Brooklyn, New York.
	ca.geocities.com /kreddigan/trees.htm (838 words)

	Archaeology at Ferryland, Newfoundland, 1997: Matthew Carter, Barry Gaulton and James A. Tuck
		The 1997 season at Ferryland was perhaps the most productive and exciting of the six seasons of archaeology in the current field program.
		It appears not to be a roadway for it is with an identical pavement of similar date at the western edge of Area C (the waterfront premises), and is therefore not a road or path but some sort of large exterior pavement that served some undetermined function.
		The unusual vessel forms, with a variety of bases, necks, spouts and handles, make it difficult to assess the number of vessels represented in the Ferryland collection but as many as ten or a dozen would not be surprising.
	www.nfmuseum.com /9726Tu.htm (3141 words)

	ROBERT SWAIN DESCENDANTS - pafg03.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		She died in 1918 in Caplin Bay, NF and was was buried in Ferryland RC Cemetery, NF.
		CLARA was baptized on Jul 4 1902 in Holy Trinity Parish, Ferryland, NF.
		BRIDGET was baptized on Jun 16 1874 in Holy Trinity Parish, Ferryland, NF.
	home.comcast.net /~SMLOPES/pafg03.htm (2269 words)

	The Colony of Avalon
		The Colony of Avalon was situated at a place called Ferryland, on the south east coast of Newfoundland's Avalon peninsula.
		The first recorded settlers of Ferryland were followers of the "Pirate Admiral" Peter Easton who plied Newfoundland waters (circa 1600-1620).
		Dutch buccaneers under Captain Jacob Everson laid seige to the Colony of Avalon at Ferryland.
	www.infonet.st-johns.nf.ca /providers/green/ferryland.html (503 words)

	Ferryland
		Despite the fact that the family got its footings in the new world in Caplin Bay (Calvert), it will always be Ferryland that tugs at the heart-strings of any true Morry for it was there that the family resided for most of two centuries.
		Although they owned other property in Ferryland before and afterwards, the property that became the Morrys mainstay in Ferryland was the land known as the Holdsworth premises.
		The ownership of this house and lands, which constituted much of the north side of Ferryland, continues to be shrouded in some degree of mystery.
	www.members.shaw.ca /cjmorry/ferryland.htm (785 words)

	Ferryland Information
		George Calvert was born in the Yorkshire town of Ripling in 1582 and was educated at Trinity College, Oxford.
		In 1638 Sir David Kirke, who had captured Quebec from the French, took over Ferryland and the province of Avalon on a patent from his close friend, Charles I. The Calverts brought a suit against Kirke who was recalled to England during the Interregnum of Oliver Cromwell to answer charges.
		She is said to have died in St.John's and was buried in the Church of England cemetery on Duckworth Street.
	www.wordplay.com /tourism/communities/ten_historic_towns/map1_info.html (1381 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		The prizes, incidentally were the cause of a dispute between himself and the English merchants whose ships had assisted in the seizure, a dispute in which Baltimore with characteristic shrewdness sought to strengthen his case by having his letters of marque antedated.
		On 19 Aug. 1629, he wrote to the king from Ferryland, complaining that the winter lasted from October to May, that half his company of 100 were sick and that 10 of them were dead.
		Cecil Calvert appointed William Hill as his deputy governor of Ferryland in 1634 and strongly protested the grant of Ferryland to Sir David Kirke in 1637.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34225 (1008 words)

	MERVENT - :: архив :: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ferryland Sealer Our schooner and our sloop in Ferryland they do lie.
		Oh now we are loaded and our schooner she is sound, And the ice it is open and to Ferryland we're bound, We all gave her a rally for to praise all our fancy, Our seals they were collected by the William and the Nancy.
		We are now off Cape Spear and in sight of Cape Broyle, We will dance, sing, carouse, my boys, in just a little while, We will soon enjoy the charms of our sweethearts and friends For it will not be long before we're down to the bend.
	mervent.celtic.ru /archive.php?action=text&txt=ferryland_sealer (338 words)

	Outport Archaeology: Community Archaeology in Newfoundland (revision 3). (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ferryland's seventeenth-century Colony of Avalon and the prehistoric research at the National Historic Park at Port au Choix, each directed by a senior member of Memorial University's Archaeology Unit, are long-standing projects under way since the early 1980s (Tuck 1996, Renouf 2002, Buckley, Pope and Hollingshurst 2002).
		In 2003 Lisa Hodgetts completed a post-doctoral study of thousands of faunal specimens from seventeenth-century domestic deposits at Ferryland, and was able to show that the early English colonists there had a surprisingly varied diet (Hodgetts 2003).
		Somerset and Dorset ceramics from seventeenth-century Ferryland, Newfoundland.
	www.arts.mun.ca /nahop/OutPortArch.html (6167 words)

	Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
		Historic Ferryland Museum is a community museum located in a two-story structure which was built as the Bank of Montreal in 1916.
		Soon after its construction, it was converted to serve as a courthouse, jail and police officer's residence until the early 1950's.
		The collection also contains some interesting textiles, including a crochet bedspread of remarkable quality and a military jacket worn by a Newfoundlander who fought on the Government side during the Riel Rebellion in Canada.
	www.manl.nf.ca /historicferryland.htm (0 words)

	ACOA Website - News - News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Ferryland's reputation as an excellent archaeological site can only be enhanced by this new development which will complement the work of the Colony of Avalon Foundation and preserve a symbol of great religious significance in our province," said Minister Mifflin.
		Ten thousand tourists visited Ferryland last summer, an increase of 25% since 1994, and the trend is expected to continue upwards.
		They are also helping Ferryland grow economically stronger, first by diversifying its economy and secondly by making it a major tourism anchor for the Southern Shore.
	www.acoa.ca /e/media/press/press.shtml?808 (430 words)

	Real Estate Agents in Ferryland, Newfoundland
		Depending on what you have in mind, you may be looking for commercial property, affordable housing, recreational property, or a general property investment.
		Ferryland may offer attractive options for home buying, selling, renting or investing.
		If this is the case, be sure to obtain the services of a real estate agent that is experienced with both buying and selling.
	www.realestateproperty.ca /secure/real_estate_agents/newfoundland/ferryland.html (306 words)

	Preliminary Counts
		Based on preliminary vote counts received by telephone from the returning officers appointed to conduct the by elections on Thursday, February 8, 2007 in the Electoral Districts of Ferryland, Kilbride and Port au Port are as follows:
		The official addition of the votes for the by elections in Ferryland, Kilbride and Port au Port are scheduled to take place at the offices of each of the Returning Officers, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
		Upon conclusion of the official addition of the votes, the candidate who receives the largest number of votes for each district shall be declared elected by the returning officer for each electoral district.
	www.releases.gov.nl.ca /releases/2007/elections/0208n06.htm (142 words)

	Tory contenders surface to claim Sullivan's seat
		Premier Danny Williams has yet to announce a byelection for Ferryland district, which Sullivan represented from 1992 until Friday, when he tendered his resignation from both cabinet and the legislature.
		Drew is a fisherman and the mayor of the town of Bay Bulls.
		Ferryland encompasses a string of coastal communities on Avalon Peninsula's Southern Shore, immediately south of St. John's and stretching to Trepassey.
	www.cbc.ca /canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/01/02/tories-ferryland.html?ref=rss (1273 words)

	Travel to Atlantic Canada. Newfoundland and Labrador.
		John's traces its history to the 1500s, as do Trinity, the heritage village on Trinity Bay, and Red Bay, where Basques established a series of whaling stations that constituted North America’s largest industrial enterprise of the period.
		South of St. John's, Ferryland began as Lord Baltimore's first New World settlement for English Roman Catholics.
		Its inland location, away from the often-present coastal fog, made Gander a prime candidate for a military air base during WW II, and the town now keeps its heritage on display with a collection of notable aircraft.
	www.westerncanadatravel.com /atlantic.canada.newfoundland.htm (0 words)

	Arius3D Digital Imaging Solutions
		It was in the fall of 1985, during a short season of excavation at the site of the 17th-century Colony of Avalon, located in Ferryland, Newfoundland, that the unusual iron object was found in the remains of a forge.
		It was shaped like a cross, but the details were completely obscured by a thick layer of corrosion that had incorporated the gravel and sand of the soil matrix.
		The Arius3D three-dimensional color scanners and the Pointstream imaging software support wide ranging applications in culture and heritage, research, education, and entertainment.
	www.arius3d.com /cs_ferryland/ferryland.html (653 words)

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