Province of Avalon

Province of Avalon
1610–1696
Flag of Avalon
Flag
Location of Avalon
StatusEnglish colony
CapitalFerryland, Newfoundland
Common languagesEnglish
GovernmentConstitutional monarchy
LegislatureLords Proprietors
Historical eraColonial Era
1610
• Destroyed by New France in the Avalon Peninsula Campaign
1696
CurrencyPound sterling
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Colony of Avalon
Newfoundland Colony

The Province of Avalon was the area around the English settlement of Ferryland in what is now Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada in the 17th century, which upon the success of the colony grew to include the land held by Sir William Vaughan and all the land that lay between Ferryland and Petty Harbour.