Cabot set a more northerly route then Columbus, settling into higher Atlantic currents. Four and a half weeks later he sighted land. On St. John's Day -- June 24, 1497 Cabot set into a bay and ...

After John Cabot's 1497 voyage to North America ... to cross the Atlantic in search of riches and a route to China. Jacques Cartier, 1848. Artist: Theophile Hamel, National Archives of Canada ...