Frobisher Bay for the English navigator Sir Martin Frobisher, who, during his search for the Northwest Passage in 1576, became the first European to visit it. Until Hall's voyage in 1861, the Bay was thought by Europeans to be a strait separating Baffin Island from another island. The first Church of England service recorded on North American soil was a celebration of Holy Communion at Frobisher Bay in the last days of August or early September 1578. The Anglican Church of Canada's Prayer Book fixes the day of commemoration as September 3. The chaplain on Frobisher's voyage was " 'Maister Wolfall (probably
Europeans in Pakistan a delegated mission. Europeans in Pakistan Europeans in Pakistan comprise residents of Pakistan who are of European origin. Prior to its independence in 1947, Pakistan was part of the colonial British Raj empire in South Asia. British control of the region began with the annexation of Sind in 1843, the Punjab and North-West Frontier in 1849, and Baluchistan in 1876. The colonial period expanded European presence and influence in South Asia. Thousands of European settlers arrived in the subcontinent as administrators, soldiers, officials, civilians, missionaries and traders. During the 1940s, there were small populations of European Jews scattered across cosmopolitan