In 2014, a researcher in Spain uncovered the oldest civil document written in Canada.
In 1563, a Basque sailor named Domingo de Luca could sense his end was near. So, on May 15th, he dictated his last will and testament while fishing near Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. Four hundred and fifty years later, Dr. Michael Barkham uncovered de Luca’s final words in an archive in Spain and the discovery has communities on both sides of the Atlantic buzzing. This podcast was originally recorded in May 2014.
