Named after navigator John & not his son Sebastian, this strait joins the Atlantic to the St. Lawrence Gulf
They add that the discovery was made by John Cabot and his son 
Sebastian,... [DOC] [TLE] George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol ... [PAR] The increase of years did not impair his holy confidence; and in 1492, when he 
seemed to ... and commercial restriction, John Cabot, taking with him his son 
Sebastian, ... A few days after the English navigator had left the port of Bristol, 
Vasco de ..... territories and islands which lie near the gulf or along the river St. 
Lawrence.