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 […]

Pinware Hill

The first post I ever wrote for this blog was about the French establishment in West St. Modeste, Labrador known as the Old French Fort EjBe-60. Continuing north along the highway the next community is Pinware, a small town of under 100 people but archaeologically it plays a huge role in the Province’s past. There […]