Voisey's Bay sparks interest in Placentia, Nfld.

Settling Placentia when Toronto was trees, Basque fishermen described it as insulace corte realis, or "harbour within a womb of hills." The depiction was apt. More than 100 years later, in the early 1600s, France and England fought for control...

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