Province of Avalon | |||||||||
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| 1610–1696 | |||||||||
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| Status | English colony | ||||||||
| Capital | Ferryland, Newfoundland | ||||||||
| Common languages | English | ||||||||
| Government | Constitutional monarchy | ||||||||
| Legislature | Lords Proprietors | ||||||||
| Historical era | Colonial Era | ||||||||
• London and Bristol Company charter | 1610 | ||||||||
• Destroyed by New France in the Avalon Peninsula Campaign | 1696 | ||||||||
| Currency | Pound sterling | ||||||||
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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.