Cabox Geopark Commemorates Cook Newfoundland Chart

Cabox Geopark Commemorates Cook Newfoundland Chart

Commemorations

On October 26, Cabox Geopark in Western Newfoundland commemorated the 250th Anniversary of James Cook’s ‘Chart of the West Coast of Newfoundland’. Considered by many to be Cook’s finest map, the chart was published a year after his last survey in Eastern Canada, after being selected to command a voyage to the Pacific Ocean to witness the transit of Venus and search for the fabled southern continent.

Hockey Tournament in Honour of James Cook

Hockey Tournament in Honour of James Cook

Commemorations

The 20th Anniversary Captain Cook Hockey Tournament wrapped up March 4, 2018 at the Civic Centre in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Held during the 250th anniversary of Cook preparing his ‘Chart of the West Coast of Newfoundland’, the 24 teams vied for bragging rights and commemorative James Cook 250 maps of the island of Newfoundland.

International Trail Commemorates Cook Survey

International Trail Commemorates Cook Survey

Commemorations

During summer 2017, the International Appalachian Trail Newfoundland & Labrador in conjunction with Cabox Aspiring Geopark commemorated the 250th Anniversary of British navigator, surveyor, cartographer and explorer James Cook’s survey of Western Newfoundland, his fifth and final year of Newfoundland surveys and tenth and final year in Eastern Canada.

Famous surveyor James Cook also a brewmaster

Famous surveyor James Cook also a brewmaster

Commemorations

When James Cook surveyed the coasts of Newfoundland in the 1700s, his crew would go ashore and make spruce beer. 
The drink not only quenched the sailors’ thirst, spruce beer was credited in part for Cook’s high success rate at preventing scurvy. Two hundred and fifty years after Cook put Newfoundland on the map, the Western Newfoundland Brewing Company is making a spruce beer of its own.

Plans in place to raise awareness of Capt. James Cook’s important mapping work in Bay of Islands

Plans in place to raise awareness of Capt. James Cook’s important mapping work in Bay of Islands

Commemorations

James Cook spent five years mapping out much of the coastline of Newfoundland and parts of Labrador.  This year marks the 250th anniversary of his last year doing his cartographic work, with that final year of 1767 spent surveying and charting the western Newfoundland coastline. This summer, events will mark Cook’s final year in the Newfoundland and Labrador area.