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Area Information
- Location: The Town of Grand Bank is located on the southern tip of the Burin Peninsula.
Documents indicate there may have been French fishermen in Grand Bank as early as 1640.
- In 1713 the Treaty of Utrecht ceded North America to England and an influx of English settlers began. After the French were given St.Pierre, many of the English families on the French island moved to Grand Bank.
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In July 1765, Captain James Cook moored his ship at Admiral's Cove, came ashore and gathered buds off the small spruce trees on Grand Bank cape to brew beer for his crew for medical purposes. Town of Grand Bank |