Further Documentation Supporting the Former Existence of Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos) in Northern Quebec-Labrador

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Loring, Stephen, Spiess, Arthur
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2009
• Subjects: Labrador; barren-ground grizzly bear; Ursus arctos; Innu; William Brooks Cabot; Lucien Turner; William Duncan Strong; grizzli de Richardson; Innus; Découverte; Cabot; Rivière George; Arctic; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63322

The discovery in 1976 of a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) skull in an 18th-century Labrador Inuit midden effectively ended speculation about the former existence of the species in the barrenlands of northern Quebec and Labrador. We analyzed a photograph of a bear skull taken in 1910 at an Innu camp in...