Western Newfoundland Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About Western Newfoundland
As part of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, France ceded to Great Britain all of its territories in what is now Canada, except for the islands of St.-Pierre and Miquelon. The treaty gave France the right to continue fishing along the west coast of Newfoundland, a right it retained until 1904. As a consequence, western Newfoundland developed much later than the rest of the island. Without access to the fish stocks of the area, the predominantly English and Irish Newfoundlanders had no reason to settle there, and the French fishers were not supposed to settle there. Some French did settle, and their descendants continue to live in French on thePort au Port Peninsula. While central and eastern Newfoundland towns have historic buildings, western Newfoundland buildings are mostly of 20th-century const
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