User blog comment:ChrisL123/Spanish "Canada"/@comment-4111044-20111106213820

It is said that sailors from many countries have reached Newfoundland in the beginning of Modern times. But it is one thing to reach it and another one to have the interest in founding a colony there. One of the reasons why colonization took so long to happen in many places (over 100 years after the continent had been discovered by Europeans, the greatest part was still left to natives) - was economical interest, or lack thereof. So, I guess the Spanish would probably overlook the region, in favor of the more profitable ones, if they actually haven't.