St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador

St. Anthony is a city in the north of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, in the northern foothills of the Long Range Mountains.

The history of European settlement in the region of St. Anthony goes back to the early 16th century, used as a French and Basque fishermen who sheltered bay as a port. When the explorer Jacques Cartier in 1534, the settlement visited, it was called St. Anthony Haven. 1857 St. Anthony was one of 71 inhabitants in 1891 there were 139 until 1900 with the arrival of Wilfred Grenfell, an English physician and missionary, the town began to grow faster.