Dr. Ingeborg Marshall

As she turns 95 on 11 May 2024, this blog post celebrates Dr. Ingeborg Marshall’s more than fifty years of commitment as a private scholar to the province’s history, and in particular to Beothuk history and archaeology. When she began this work in the early 1970s, original copies of James P. Howley’s 1915 volume on […]

Shamblers Cove

The Shamblers Cove site, located near Greenspond on the north side of Bonavista Bay, gains prominence in Newfoundland and Labrador archaeology due to the unique characteristics of its Dorset component. It should also be recognized for its multiple instances of First Nation occupations. The Historic Resources Division first became aware of this site in June […]

Beothuk world view and religious practices

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English observers maintained either that the Beothuk had no religion, or that it “the religion of this people rises but little above such harmless trifling observances.” (Howley 1915:39) Beothuk world view and their religious practices as described by Shanawdithit, however, appears to have constituted a pervasive force in their lives, influencing individual […]