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.
He’s regarded as one of history’s greatest navigators, but events to mark the 250th anniversary of Capt. James Cook’s time mapping the coast of Newfoundland have gone largely unnoticed. A group in Corner Brook is trying to change that. Here’s that story, as seen on the Tuesday edition of the NTV Evening News Hour.
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.
A world renowned explorer who literally put Newfoundland and Labrador on the map is being recognized for his work 250 years later. James Cook surveyed most of the province from 1763-1767, charting areas unknown to the British at the time. James Cook 250 celebrations tie in with Canada 150 and the Tall Ships Regatta that’s coming to Corner Brook and the Northern Peninsula the end of July
A PROPOSED exhibition in 2020 at the National Museum of Australia to mark the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s arrival in Australia, brought the museum’s senior curator Ian Coates to Gisborne this week. HMS Endeavour arrived on the east coast of New Zealand in 1769 and on the east coast of Australia in 1770.
The year 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Cook’s exploration of the east coast of Australia and the nation will be celebrating. Our community of Town of 1770/Agnes Water will take part in the national celebrations and the Cook 250 in 1770 team, has been assembled to oversee this momentous event.