John Cabot - Reception and Memorialisation

Reception and Memorialisation

Examples of the memorialisation of John Cabot and his expeditions include:

• A 1762 painting of "Giovanni Caboto" on the walls of the Ducal Palace in Venice.
• Cabot Tower in St. John's, Newfoundland, constructed in 1897 to commemorate the four-hundredth anniversary of Cabot's voyage.
• Cabot Tower, in Bristol, England. This is a 30-metre tall red sandstone tower begun in 1897 to mark the 400th anniversary of the landing. It is located on Brandon Hill near the city centre and was begun as a fraternal response to the earlier decision of Newfoundland to construct their tower.
• A 1910 painting in the Houses of Parliament
• The Giovanni Caboto Club, an Italian club located in Windsor, Ontario, established in 1925.
• A 1952 statue of the explorer at the entrance to Bristol's Council House — albeit one that the city council decided in 1956 to designate as a "symbolic figure of an Elizabethan seaman". This was despite the fact that the sculptor Charles Wheeler exhibited the work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1952 as "Number 1423, John Cabot — sketch model for the statue on the New Council House, Bristol". In addition, it may be noted that the figure is dressed in fifteenth-century clothing, has a fifteenth-century navigational instrument (astrolabe) hanging from his belt and is clutching what is clearly meant to be John Cabot's letters patent. Despite all this, the Council still "maintains that the statue does not represent the city's renowned explorer, John Cabot." The reason for the Council's "re-designation" of the statue is not recorded, but may be related to its decision to name the new council house after Elizabeth II, who opened the building in April 1956.
• John Cabot University is an American university established in 1972 in Rome, Italy.
• A 1985 bronze statue of the explorer by Stephen Joyce, located on the Bristol Harbour side .
• A replica of the Matthew of Bristol built to commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the 1497 voyage.
• The scenic Cabot Trail in the Cape Breton Highlands is named after the explorer.
• John Cabot Academy is an independent school in Bristol.
• Cabot Links - a golf course in Inverness, Nova Scotia
• Cabot Ward is an electoral district in Bristol, albeit one that gets its name from Cabot Tower, which lies in the ward, rather than directly from the explorer.
• Cabot Square in London and the smaller Cabot Square, Montreal.
• Cabot Circus, a shopping mall opened in Bristol in 2008 was named following a city-wide poll, thus demonstrating the enduring popularity of the explorer in Bristol
• John Cabot Road in north Phoenix, Arizona.
• Cabot Street in St. John's Newfoundland.
• A bronze statue of the explorer is located at St. John's front of the Confederation Building.
• A bronze statue of the explorer is located at Cape Bonavista
• A second replica of the Matthew located at Cape Bonavista
• John Cabot Catholic Secondary School in Mississauga, Canada is named after the explorer.