Ferryland was first visited by French fishermen
as early as 1504 and used by them as a base for the summer fishery. It was these
who called it Forillon, which
meant "standing out or separated from the mainland" and thus aptly described
the peninsula now known as the Downs.
The French abandoned their east coast resorts early in the sixteenth century and went each summer to the south
coast where fishing began a month earlier.
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. In 1622,
he received a grant of the southeastern peninsula, with quasi-royal
jurisdiction. Over the past decade archaeologists have been excavating
his
Colony of Avalon
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