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Beothuk
Wikipedia article
Article
The Beothuk were an indigenous people based on the island of Newfoundland.
Demasduit
Wikipedia article
Article
Demasduit (c. 1796 – January 8, 1820) was a Beothuk woman, one of the last of her people on the island of Newfoundland, Canada.
Labrador Days
Tales of the Sea Toilers
Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason
Book
1919
Mount Cashel Orphanage
Wikipedia article
Article
The Mount Cashel Orphanage was a Canadian orphanage that was operated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
SS Newfoundland was a sealing ship which lost 78 sealers on the ice during extreme weather conditions in March 1914 which claimed lives from three sealing ships in an event known as the 1914 Newfoundl...
Newfoundland War Brides
Hann, Marion; Crosbie-Marshall, Lin
Article
2007
warbrides.ca
Lin Crosbie-Marshall discusses courtship and cultural connections with four Corner Brook women who left Scotland over 60 years ago, and followed their soldier husbands to western Newfoundland.
Shanawdithit
Wikipedia article
Article
Shanawdithit (ca. 1801 – June 6, 1829), was the last known living member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland.

Sources Bookshelf

Canada Rediscovered
McGhee, Robert
Book
1991
Robert McGhee descirbes wat we know about early European explorations of what is now Canada - Irish, Norse, English Portuguese, French, Spanish - as well as the early Europeans' interactions with the ...
Dictionary of Canadian Place Names
Rayburn, Alan
Book
1997
Includes 6,200 names of Canadian cities, towns, lakes, rivers, national parks, mountains, capes, channels and bays.
A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk
Marshall, Ingeborg
Book
1996
The Beothuk, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland, were hunters, gatherers, and fishers who moved seasonally between the coast and the interior. With the influx of European settlements and fishe...
The Voice of Newfoundland
A Social History of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland, 1939-1949
Webb, Jeff A.
Book
2008
Explores the roles that radio played in society and culture during a vibrant and pivotal time in Newfoundland's history, and demonstrates how the broadcaster's decision to air political debates was pi...

Media

Acadiensis
Atlantic Canadian history.
Canadian Historical Review
Analysis of the ideas, people and events that have molded Canadian society and institutions. Canada's past is examined from a vast and multicultural perspective.
Newfoundland and Labrador Studies
Society, arts, culture and science of Newfoundland and Labrador.


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