Watercolour and marker
©2019 Charlene Brown
This lovely town,
which featured prominently in early European contact with North America, was
named by Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real when he arrived here on Trinity
Sunday in 1501.
Fishermen from England
began using Trinity as a base in the 1570s and gradually began to settle the
area and export fish to Britain. Due to
its importance in British-Newfoundland trade it was captured twice by the
French during the Anglo-French Wars of 1696-1713 and once more during the Seven
Years War of 1756-1763.
Trinity was also the
site of the first court of justice in North America, the Court of the
Admiralty, held in 1615. In 1798, vaccination
for small pox was introduced to the New World in Trinity by John Clinch, a
medical colleague of Edward Jenner.
