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The earliest known European settlement is the Norse settlement of Vinland by Leif Ericson [c. 970-c. 1020]. According to the Saga of the Greenlanders, Ericson left Greenland in 1002-1003. Ericson wasn't the first to see coastal Canada. Bjarni Herjolfsson was actually the first European known to have seen the American mainland, in 986. But Ericson landed, and founded a colony, which may have been at L'Anse aux Meadows, in Newfoundland, Canada. During the 1960s-1970s, the husband-and-wife team of explorer Helge Marcus Ingstad [December 30, 1899-March 29, 2001] and archaeologist Dr. Anne Stine Ingstad [February 11, 1918-November 6, 1997] discovered the remnants of a Viking settlement there.

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