A Research Bibliography
History, Ethnography, Ethnohistory and Prehistory in the Labrador Straits
Please note that this is a partial bibliography and has not been updated since about 1990.
Documentary / History
Barkham, Selma
1980 A note on the Strait of Belle Isle during the period of Basque contact with Indians and Inuit. Etudes/Inuit/Studies 4(1-2):51-8.
Burland, Cottie Arthur
1951 A map of Canada in 1546. Geographical Magazine 24(2):103-10.
Cell, Gillian T. (Ed.)
1982 Newfoundland Discovered, English Attempts at Colonization 1610-1630. The Hakluyt Society. London.
Gagong, William Francis
1964 Crucial maps in the early cartography and place-nomenclature of the Atlantic coast of Canada. University of Toronto Press. Toronto.
Langlois, Janick
2000 Les pêcheries de loup-marin en Nouvelle-France. MA Thesis, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. [PDF file]
Loewen, Brad
1999 Les barriques de Red Bay et l'espace Atlantique septentrional, vers 1565. Ph.D Thesis, Université Laval. [PDF file]
Martijn, Charles A.
1980 The Esquimaux in the 17th and 18th century cartography of the Gulf of St. Lawrence: a preliminary discussion. Etudes/Inuit/Studies 4(1-2):77-104.
1980 The Inuit of southern Quebec-Labrador: a rejoinder to J. Garth Taylor. Etudes/Inuit/Studies 4(1-2):194-8.
Townsend, Charles Wendell (Ed.)
1911 Captain Cartwright and his Labrador Journal. Dana Estes. Boston.
Ethnography
Bernard, Francis
1806 Account of the coast of Labrador: February 16, 1761. Collections of the Massachusets Historical Society for the Year 1792 1:233-7.
Beauchamp, William M.
1899 Southern visits of the Eskimo. American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal 21(4):201-3.
Biggar, Henry Percifal
1922-36 The Works of Samuel de Champlain. 7 vols. Champlain Society. Toronto.
1924 The Voyages of Jacques Cartier. Publican no. 11, Public Archives of Canada. Ottawa.
Cartwright, George
1792 A Journal of Transactions and Events During a Residence of Nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador. 3 vols. Allin and Ridge. Newark, Great Britain.
Jenness, Diamond
1932 The Indians of Canada. Bulletin no. 65, Anthropological Series no. 15. National Museum of Canada. Ottawa.
Marshall, Ingeborg C.L.
1988 Newfoundland Beothuk illustrated. Man in the Northeast 35:47-70.
Quinn, David Beers
1981 Sources of the ethnography of northeastern North America to 1611. Canadian Ethnology Service, Paper 76, Mercury Series. National Museum of Man. Ottawa.
Rogers, Edward S. and Eleanor Leacocck
1981 Montagnais-Naskapi. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 6, pp. 169-89. Smithsonian Institute. Washington, D.C.
Taylor, J. Garth
1974 Labrador Eskimo settlements of the early contact period. Publications in Ethnology no. 9. National Museum of Man. Ottawa.
1979 Indian-Inuit relations in eastern Labrador, 1600-1976. Arctic Anthropology 16(2):49-58.
1979 The case of the invisible Inuit: reconciling archaeology, history and oral tradition in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Thule Eskimo Culture: An Anthropological Retrospective, Allan P. McCartney (ed.), pp. 267-77. Archaeological Survey of Canada, Mercury Series, Paper No. 88. National Museum of Man. Ottawa.
1980 The Inuit of southern Quebec-Labrador. Etudes/Inuit/Studies 4(1-2):185-93.
1984 Historical ethnography of the Labrador coast. Arctic, vol. 5, pp. 508-21. Smithsonian Institute. Washington, D.C.
Ethnohistory
Clermont, Norman
1977 Les Inuit du Labrador méridional avant Cartwright. Etudes/Inuit/Studies 4(1-2):147-66.
Hoffman, Bernard Gilbert
1961 Cabot to Cartier. University of Toronto Press. Toronto.
Kaplan, Susan A.
1985 European goods and economic change in early Labrador Inuit society. Cultures in Contact, William W. Fitzhugh (ed.), pp. 45-69. Smithsonian Institute Press. Washington, D.C.
Marshal, Ingeborg C.L.
1986 An ethnohistory of the Newfoundland Beothuk. Unpublished ms.
Pastore, Ralph T.
1987 Fishermen, furriers and Beothuks: the economy of extinction. Man in the Northeast 33:47-62.
1988 The Beothuk Retreat: Beothuk population movements from contact to extinction. Paper given at the 7th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference. May 1988. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Pastore, Ralph T.
1988 Review of: Cultures in Contact: The European Impact on Native American Cultural Institutions in Eastern North America, William W. Fitzhugh (ed.). Smithsonian Institute Press. Washington, D.C. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 12:230-45.
Raynauld, Francoy
1984 Les pecheurs et les colons anglais n'ont pas exterminé les Béothuks de Terre-Neuvre. Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 14(1):45-59.
Trudel, Francois
1978 Les Inuit et l'expansion commerciale européene dans la région du détroit de Belle-Isle au XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 7(3-4):49-58.
1978 The Inuit of southern labrador and the development of French sedentary fisheries (1700-1760). Canadian Ethnology, Papers from the Fourth Annual Congress, 1977, Paper No. 40, pp. 99-122. Canadian Ethnology Service, National Museum of Man. Ottawa.
Tuck, James A.
1986 European-native contacts in the Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador. Paper presented at the Groningen Conference, The Netherlands.
Prehistoric Research
Ethnoscop
1986 Inventaire archéologique de la ligne de transport d'énergie lac Robertson/Blanc Sablon, troná‡áon est, été 1984. Recherches archéologiques au Québec 1983/84, pp. 289-92. L'Association des Archéologues au Québec. Québec.
Fitzhugh, William W.
1981 Smithsonian Surveys in Central and Northern Labrador in 1981. Archaeology in Newfoundland and Labrador 1981, Jane Sproull Thomson and Callum Thomson (eds.), pp. 32-55. Historic Resources Division, Department of Culture, Recreation and Youth, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's.
1983 Archaeological surveys in the Strait of Belle Isle. Archaeology in Newfoundland and Labrador 1982, Jane Sproull Thomson and Callum Thomson (eds.), pp. 118-32. Historic Resources Division, Department of Culture, Recreation and Youth, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's.
Groison, Dominique
1979 Projet de Central Diesel: Lourdes-de-Blanc-Sablon - Inventaire archéologique. ms., 24 pp, Direction de l'Environment, Hydro-Québec. Montréal.
Harp. Elmer Jr.
1951 An archaeological survey in the Strait of Belle Isle area. American Antiquity 16(3):203-20.
1964 Evidence of Boreal Archaic cultures in southern Labrador and Newfoundland. Contribution to Anthropology, 1961-62, part 1, Bulletin 193, pp. 184-261. National Museum of Canada. Ottawa.
Jenness, Diamond
1929 Notes on the Beothuck Indians of Newfoundland. Annual Report of the National Museum of Canada for 1927, Bulletin 57, pp. 36-9. Ottawa.
Levesque, Rene
1976 Cadre géographique des gisements archéologiques de la région de Blanc Sablon. Thése maáÅ’átrise, Faculté des Arts, Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke.
n.d. Catalogue des piéces archéologiques récoltées dans la région des Brador. Inventaire des sites archéologiques du Québec, Ministére des Affaires culturelles. Québec.
Lloyd, T.G.B.
1874 Notes on Indian remains found on the coast of Labrador. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 4+39-44.
1875 On the stone implements of Newfoundland. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 5:233-48.
Loring, Stephen
1985 Archaeological investigations into the nature of the late prehistoric Indian occupation in Labrador: a report on the 1984 field season. Archaeology in Newfoundland and Labrador 1984, Jane Sproull Thomson and Callum Thomson (eds.), pp. 122-52. Historic Resources Division, Department of Culture, Recreation and Youth, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's.
Pintal, Jean-Yves
1988 Approaches de la préhistoire récente en Basse-Côte-Nord. ms., Laboratoire d'Archéologie, Ministére des Affaires culturelles, Québec.
1988 Recherches en archéologie préhistorique sur la Basse-Côte-Nord: région Blanc-Sablon. ms., Inventaire des aites archéologiques du Québec, Ministére des Affaires culturelles. Québec.
Pintal, Jean-Yves and Francoise Duguay
1987 Recherches en archéologie préhistorique sur la Basse-Côte-Nord: région de Blanc-Sablon et de Saint-Augustin. ms, Inventaire des sites archéologiques du Québec, Ministére des Affaires culturelles. Québec.
Syntheses / Overviews
Byers, Douglas
1959 The Eastern Arctic: some problems and hypotheses. American Antiquity 24(3):233-318.
1962 New England and the Arctic. Prehistoric Cultural Relations between the Arctic and Temperate Zones of North America. John M. Campbell (ed.). Technical Paper No. 11, pp. 143-53.. Arctic Institute of North America. Montreal.
Champdelaine, Claude (Ed.)
1978 Images de la préhistoire du Quebec. Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 7(2). Montreal.
Chevrier, Daniel
1975 L'Archéologie (pré)historique sur la moyenne et la Basse-Côte-Nord. Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 5(2):24-31.
1978 La Côte-Nord du Saint-Laurent. Images de la Préhistoire du Québec, Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 7(1-2):75-86.
Cinq-Mars, Jacques and Charles A. Martin
1981 History of Archaeological Research in the Subarctic Shield and MacKenzie Valley. Handbook of North American Indians 6:30-4, June Helm (ed.). Smithsonian Institute. Washington, D.C.
Fitzhugh, William W.
1975 A comparative approach to northern maritime adaptations. Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations of the Circumpolar Zone William W. Fitzhugh (ed.), pp. 339-86. Mouton. The Hague.
1977 Indian and Eskimo/Inuit settlement history in Labrador: an archaeological view. Our Footprints are Everywhere Carol Brice-Bennett (ed.), pp. 1-41. Labrador Inuit Association. Nain.
1980 A review of Palaeo-Eskimo culture history in southern Quebec-Labrador and Newfoundland. Etudes/Inuit/Studies 4(1-2):31-32.
1985 Early contacts north of Newfoundland before A.D. 1600: a review. Cultures in Contact: the Impact of European Contacts on Native American Cultural Instution, A.D. 1000-1800, William W. Fitzhugh (ed.), pp. 23-43. Anthropological Society of Washington Series, Smithsonian Institute Press. Washington, D.C.
Martijn, Charles A.
1978 Historique de la recherche archéologique au Québec. Images de la préhistoire du Québec, Claude Champdelaine (ed.), pp. 11-18. Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 7(1-2).
1979 Archaeological research in Quebec: an historical overview. Man in the Northeast 18:3-13.
Martijn, Charles A. And Norman Clermont (Eds.)
1980 Les Inuit du Québec-Labrador méridional - The Inuit of southern Quebec-Labrador. Etudes/Inuit/Studies 4(1-2):5-232.
Plumet, Patrick
1978 Le Nouveau-Québec et le Labrador. Images de la préhistoire du Québec, Claude Chapdelaine (ed.), pp. 99-110. Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 7(1-2).
Rogers, Edward S.
1964 The Eskimo and Indian in the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula. Le Nouveau-Québec, Jean Malaurie et Jacques Rousseau (eds.), pp. 211-49. Sorbonne. Paris.
Schwarz, Frederick
1984 The Little Passage Complex in Newfoundland: a comparative study of assemblages. B.A. Honours dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland. St. John's.
Speck, Frank G.
1935-36 Eskimo and Indian backgrounds in southern Labrador. General Magazine and Historical Chronicle, vol. 38, part 1, pp. 1-17 and part 2, pp. 143-63. University of Pennsylvania.
Taylor, William E.
1964 The prehistory of the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula. Le Nouveau-Québec, Jean Malaurie et Jacques Rousseau (eds.), pp. 181-210. Mouton. Paris.
Tuck, James A.
1975 The northeastern maritime continuum: 8000 years of cultural development in the far northeast. Arctic Anthropology 12(2):139-47.
1977 Early cultures on the Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 288:472-80.
1982 Prehistoric archaeology in Atlantic Canada since 1975. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 6:201-18.
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