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Bristol’s Hope | |
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| Bristol’s Hope | |
  Bristol’s Hope | |
| Coordinates:47°43′03″N53°11′19″W / 47.71750°N 53.18861°W /47.71750; -53.18861 | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Census division | Division 1 |
| Government | |
| • MHA | Steve Crocker (LPNL,Carbonear-Trinity-Bay de Verde) |
| • MP | Paul Connors (LPC,Avalon) |
| Area | |
| • Land | 65.43 km2 (25.26 sq mi) |
| Population (2016) | |
• Total | 299 |
| • Density | 4.6/km2 (12/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC-3:30 (Newfoundland Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-2:30 (Newfoundland Daylight) |
| Highways |  Route 70 |
Bristol’s Hope is an unorganized subdivision on theAvalon Peninsula inNewfoundland and Labrador,Canada. It is inDivision 1 and contains the unincorporated community ofBristol's Hope.
Bristol's Hope is the modern name of a community in the province ofNewfoundland and Labrador,Canada. It is located onConception Bay betweenCarbonear andHarbour Grace.
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.[1] 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.[2]
The Plantation of Bristol's Hope was the secondEnglish colony in Newfoundland established by theBristol Society of Merchant Venturers. It was a "sister" colony toCuper's Cove, established in 1618 with a land grant from KingJames I of England, and was settled by some of the colonists from Cuper's Cove.Robert Hayman was the colony's onlyProprietary Governor as this colony only existed until about 1631 before being abandoned. Although some accounts have the original colony centred at present-day Harbour Grace, the Plantation itself was much larger and included the modern location.
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 underWellington in thePeninsular War against Napoleon, and was the first native-born Newfoundlander to be knighted. His ancestor was one of the leaders in the successful defence ofCarbonear Island against the French underD’Iberville in 1697.
This one-room schoolhouse was built by community residents between 1818-1828.[3]
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