Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1919 — Cabot Discovered the North American Continent in 1497 [ARTICLE]

Cabot Discovered the North American Continent in 1497

On the-24th of June, 1497, John Cabot and his son, Sebastian, Venetian navigators, in the service of England, discovered the North American continent at a point in Labrador, on St John's day. No one had as yet reached the continent and Cabot called the site he had discovered Prima Vista.