Division No. 1, Subdivision I, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Bristol’s Hope is an unorganized subdivision on the
Bristol's Hope
Bristol's Hope is the modern name of a community in the province of
The place names Musket's Cove and Mosquito have been used since about the 1630s to refer to the area now called Bristol's Hope (Seary 1971: 63). The community was renamed in 1904 to commemorate the 1617 outpost of that name, an offshoot of the John Guy colony established at Cupids, ten miles away, in 1610 (Dale 1981a).
The Plantation of Bristol's Hope was the second
According to the 1677 Newfoundland Census, there were two households with permanent residences in "Musketa" consisting of thirteen family members and twenty-three servants. When the region came under attack from the French in 1697, their records list "Mosquit" as having "3 planters, 5 boats, and 2500 codfish". The current population is fewer than 200 people.
Possibly the settlement's most famous native-son was General Sir Henry Pynn, who fought under Wellington in the Peninsular War against Napoleon, and was the first native-born Newfoundlander to be knighted. His ancestor was one of the leaders in the successful defence of Carbonear Island against the French under D’Iberville in 1697.
References
- Dale, J. Ralph. 1981a. "Bristol’s Hope." ENL, I. St. John's: NBP. 264-265
- Seary, E.R. 1971. "Place Names of the Avalon Peninsula of the Island of Newfoundland". Toronto: U Toronto P for MUN.
- SMALLWOOD, J.R. 1941. "Newfoundland 1941 Hand Book". Gazetteer. St. John's.