Archaeology of the Inuit of Southern Labrador and the Quebec Lower North Shore

• Main Author: Fitzhugh, William
• Other Authors: Friesen, Max, Mason, Owen
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Belle Isle; Brador; Newfoundland; Petit-Mécatina; Strait of Belle Isle; Arctic marine mammals; inuit
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.013.47

Early European accounts document the presence of Labrador Inuit in northern Newfoundland, the Strait of Belle Isle, and the northeastern Gulf of St. Lawrence in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Controversy over the interpretation of the historical record and the extent and nature of Sou...