Cambriol or New Cambriol was the name given to one of North America's early Welsh colonies established by Sir William Vaughan (1575–1641). The area Vaughan had purchased from the Company of Adventurers to Newfoundland in 1616 was all that land on the Avalon Peninsula located south of a line drawn from Caplin Bay (now Calvert) to Placentia Bay (near present-day Gooseberry Cove).[1] Vaughan had called the area New Cambriol — "a little Wales" in the New World.[1] In his book The Golden Fleece,[2] an allegory in praise of his colony, makes the following assertion concerning Cambriol:
This is our Colchos, where the Golden Fleece flourisheth on the backes of Neptunes sheepe, continually to be shorne. This is Great Britaines Indies, never to be exhausted dry.
- ^ a b "William Vaughan and New Cambriol". Memorial University of Newfoundland and the C.R.B. Foundation. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage. 2007 [1997]. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
- ^ "The Golden Fleece". Duleepa Wijayawardhana and Dr. Hans Rollmann. Memorial University of Newfoundland. c. 2000. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
- ^ "Sir William Vaughan". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto/Université Laval. c. 2000. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
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