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João Álvares Fagundes (born c. 1460, Kingdom of Portugal – died 1522, Kingdom of Portugal) was an explorer and ship owner from Viana do Castelo in Northern Portugal. He organized several expeditions to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia around 1520–1521.
João Álvares Fagundes (c. 1460 - por volta do dia 5 de dezembro de 1522), foi um navegador português e armador de navios de Viana do Castelo no norte de Portugal a quem se deve o reconhecimento de parte das costas do nordeste americano, naquelas que são hoje as províncias marítimas canadianas da Nova Escócia e da Terra Nova e Labrador.
FAGUNDES, JOÃO ALVARES, Portuguese explorer; fl. 1521. Fagundes, a native of Viana, Portugal, seems to have been a member of a company organized by residents of that city who wished to found a colony in Newfoundland.
Joao Alvares Fagundes, explorer (fl 1521). In 1520 he explored the coast south and west of Cape Race, Nfld, and perhaps entered the St Lawrence River. He may have sighted Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Cape Breton Island and Sable Island.
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When Capitão João Álvares Fagundes was born in 1460, in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, his father, Dom Alvaro Annes Fagundes "Sr. de Fagundes", was 30 and his mother, D. Catharina Dias, was 29. He married Leonor Dias Boto in Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
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João Alvares Fagundes Some scholars think that the Portuguese followed up these voyages with an attempt to found a colony, a theory which is associated with the name of João Alvares Fagundes. A native of the town of Viana, Portugal, Fagundes probably explored the south coast of Newfoundland in 1520, and may have entered the Gulf of St ...
