Lil Hawkins of the Colony of Avalon Foundation for her assistance and access to the Foundation s collections, laboratory and other facilities and to the personnel of the Ferryland Museum and all others from the Capital of the Shore who have over the years reminded me of my own Irish roots with their lively and hospitable fashions. [...] The Portuguese also laid claim to the island by virtue of the voyages of the Corte Reals, and the French after the voyages of Cartier in the 1530s. [...] By the turn of the 17th century the French had established them- 4 The Machinations of Colonization selves on the North American continent in a “New France” and considered the south, west, and northeast coasts of the island of Newfoundland to be their territory. [...] By the end of the first millennium, the death of King Arthur, the disappearance of Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table had interwoven pagan Celtic myth with Christian Celtic legend. [...] In applying to the king for his grant, Falkland listed his reasons for wanting to establish a plantation as “. For the Honour of God and the king; that part of the Country is not inhabited; His Majesty’s undoubted right to the Country; that the London [and Bristol Company] Plantation has been settled for 13 years (Guy’s Colony); the Bristol Plantation 5 years; and Lord Baltimore’s the two years la