ST.PIERRE&MIQUELON 
VIDEO TAKEN PERRY,MAINE (usa) CEMETARY,15 Jan,2003
-while on vacation-
The first humans present on Saint-Pierre and Miquelon were reputedly Basque, Norman, and Breton peoples who made their living by fishing. In 1520 Portuguese explorer Jose Alvarez Faguendez landed in the area, giving the islands an initial name of Eleven Thousand Virgins (after Saint Ursula). France, which set up a fishing village in the islands in the early 1600s, fought Britain for control of the area until 1814. At that point France won permanent possession. In 1946 the islands were designated a French overseas territory and in 1956 were allowed to institute self-government. Their status was upgraded to overseas department in 1976 and to collectivity in 1985.
St. Pierre and Miquelon
6,400 (1995). French Department; islands off the southwest coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Christian, other---- The number of languages listed for St. Pierre and Miquelon is 2.
ENGLISH-188 in St. Pierre and Miquelon (1967 census); 322,000,000 in all countries;FRENCH-5,114 out of 5,235 population inSt. Pierre and Miquelon (1967 census); 72,000,000 in all countries.
French overseas territorial collectivity (pop., 1993 est.: 6,000). It consists of two islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the S coast of Newfoundland. Miquelon has an area of 83 sq mi (215 sq km). St.-Pierre, with an area of 10 sq mi (26 sq km), is the administrative and commercial center; almost 90% of the population live there. First settled by seafarers from W France early in the 17th cent., the islands changed hands several times between France and Britain until an 1814 treaty made French possession final. They were classified as a French territory in 1946, a department in 1976, and a territorial collectivity in 1985. The economy is based on cod fishing.
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