Giovanni Caboto (c. 1450 - c.1498), known in English as John Cabot, and in French as Jean Cabot, was a Genoese navigator and explorer commonly credited as one of the first early modern Europeans to land on the North American mainland, aboard the "Matthew" in 1497. Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for John Cabot. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cabot
CABOT (Caboto), JOHN (Giovanni) , Italian explorer, leader of voyages of discovery from Bristol to North America in 1497 and 1498; d.1498? www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34223
So Gisborne moved to Newfoundland, and began to promote a connection by electric telegraph along the south coast of Newfoundland and across Cabot Strait to Cape Breton. ns1763.ca/victco/cabotcablem.html