Terra Nova National Park tour boat the Shanawdithit, 1962

• Main Author: Braye, Crystal
• Other Authors: Butt, Edgar, Edgar Butt was born in Glovertown in 1926. His parents, Joseph and Patience (nee Greening), moved from Flat Island to Glovertown in 1921. At the age of fourteen, Edgar began working at a wood working factory owned by Arthur J. House. He worked with House for number of years in Glovertown, St. John's, and briefly in Corner Brook, before returning to Glovertown with his wife Patricia to raise their family. Edgar spent 26 years as the foreman in the carpentry shop at Terra Nova National Park, where he oversaw the construction of the Shanawdithit in 1962, named for the last known Beothuk woman in Newfoundland. Used as tour boat for the park, she was 42 feet long and built from plans that were ordered from Nova Scotia. Her ribs were Nova Scotia grey oak and she was planked with local spruce.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Objects; Architecture; building and construction; Boatbuilding; Boats; Beothuk; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/boatmuseum/id/94

The Shanawdithit, Terra Nova National Park tour boat, 1962. Construction was overseen by Edgar Butt of Glovertown. The boat was named for the last known Beothuk woman in Newfoundland and was forty-two feet long and built from plans ordered from Nova Scotia. Her ribs were Nova Scotia grey oak and she was planked with local spruce.