Captain James Cook monument looking west
Photographed on 25 August 2003
National Historic Person of Canada
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
Located at Fort Needham, at the north end of Gottingen Street
GPS location: 44°39'55"N 63°36'02"W
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Photographed on 25 August 2003
Photographed on 25 August 2003
Photographed on 15 November 2002
Source: Article "James Cook" Hungarian Wikipedia
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Captain James Cook On 12 June 1758 the Pembroke reached
Louisbourg to join the blockade of the fortress, which lasted until
July 26th when the French finally surrendered. The next day Cook
met Samuel Holland, an Army surveyor-engineer, surveying on the
beach at Kennington Cove near Louisbourg. Cook was curious
and, with Simcoe's permission, Holland began to teach Cook how
to survey and draw charts...
Cook would spend several winters and all of 1761 in Halifax...
http://web.archive.org/web/20061229130810/http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/jcr/~cookbio1.html
James Cook Dictionary of Canadian Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cook_james_4E.html
James Cook Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook
Royal Navy history: Captain James Cook During the Eighteenth
Century, the British Admiralty engaged in a major programme of
scientific surveying that greatly increased knowledge of the
geography of the globe. Most renowned of the officers involved
was Captain James Cook. His first survey was of Gaspe Bay
[Kennington Cove] in Nova Scotia in 1758...
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/sitecore/content/home/about-the-royal-navy/
organisation/life-in-the-royal-navy/history/naval-leaders/captain-james-cook
Captain Cook memorial Museum Whitby, England
...It was to this house that in 1746 James Cook, then a youth
aged seventeen, came to be apprenticed to Captain John Walker...
http://www.cookmuseumwhitby.co.uk/
The Cook Files: James Cook in Canada, by David G. Fisher
Arriving in Canada untutored in the arts and science of cartography,
Cook departed as a brilliant draftsman with a remarkable body of work,
coinciding directly with some of the most significant upheavals and
events in the nation's history, including the construction of Halifax;
the siege at Louisbourg; the conquest of Quebec; the mapping of
Newfoundland; the first European discovery of British Columbia...
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Kennington Cove is one of the most significant
yet least-known historical sites in Canada...
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Captain James Cook
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/placentia/cook.htm
Captain James Cook
http://www.gold.ac.uk/world/endeavour/cook.html
Captain Cook and the Scourge of Scurvy
by BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/
empire_seapower/captaincook_scurvy_01.shtml
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New photographs installed: 2003 December 20
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