The community that we currently known as Cupids was once called Cuper's Cove.
Cupids, located on the southwest shore of Conception Bay was an early English settlement in the New World, and the second one after Jamestown, Virginia.
It is the oldest continuously settled official British colony in Canada.
John Guy on behalf of Bristol's Society of Merchant Venturers established the settlement in 1610. Guy was given a charter by King James I of England to establish a colony on the island of Newfoundland.
Most settlers left in the 1620s, but apparently a few stayed on and the site was continuously inhabited.
The colonists all male were made up of masons, carpenters, blacksmiths and other apprentices to build fortifications and dwellings to prepare for the coming winter.
Today Cupids has a population of 790.