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Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada Genealogy & History More Canadian Resources | More Newfoundland Resources BOOK - The Coldest Harour of the Land. Simon Stock and Lord Baltimore's Colony in Newfoundland, 1621-1649. By: Luca Codignola. In 1980, while working in the archives of the Sacred Congregation "de Propaganda Fide" in Rome, the author came across a number of letters written from England by the English Missionary Simon Stock. Some of these seemed of great importance to the early history of European expansion in North America. After finding the first seventy-three letters, his research logically progressed to the General Archives of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites (Stock's order) where he found twenty more of Stock's letters, plus a quantity from his confreres which considerably amplified the significance of the letters preserved in Propaganda. Later he found more letters written by Stock, one in the Vatican Secret Archives and one in the Westminister Diocesan Archives. A quick probe into the available historical literature proved that only a small fraction of those letters was known to historians. Part One of this book tells the events of the history of Avalon. It is not, however, a history of the colony, nor a history of Propaganda's first moves concerning it. Neither is it a biography of Simon Stock. The author has dwelt upon these facts in Avalon's history which Stock himself deals with or gives new information about, but he has only briefly touched upon well known facts which stock does not mention. He does examine Stock's life and personality in general, but concentrated mainly on the years of involvement in America. Part Two contains ninety-five of Stock's letters, some translated and given in full, others-of lesser or no interest to North American history-summarized. For the editing rules to be adopted into the volume, the reader is refered to introduction of part II. Full details of works cited are in the bibligraphy. Dates are given in accordance with the New Style Calendar. Hardcover, 229pgs. ISBN 0-7735-0540-7
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