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 | | Trinity and Bonavista, the traditional site of John Cabot's New World landfall in 1497, are among the earliest-settled communities in North America, dating from the early 1600s and were major fishing supply centres. |
 | | In the early twentieth century the largest communities on the peninsula were Bonavista with 3,911 inhabitants, Trinity with 1,604, and Catalina with 1,016. |
 | | At the other end of the Bonavista Peninsula, approximately 50 miles from Bonavista, was the fishing, shipbuilding and lumbering community of Clarenville, established in the 1890s by the merging of several small communities in order to procure a local post office. |
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