Resources

The following preliminary list of publications, theses and primary sources provides further information regarding the background to this project and the history of the Inuit and Inuit-Metis.

Publications and Theses


Arendt, Beatrix

2009  Hopedale archaeology Project 2008: Excavation of Housel and Anniowaktook Island. Provincial Archaeology Office 2008 Archaeology Review 7: 5-10.


Arendt, Beatrix

2008   2007 Season Report: Hopedale Archaeology Project. Provincial Archaeology Office 2007 Archaeology Review 6: 3-6.


Auger, Réginald

1993  Late-18th and early-19th century Inuit and Europeans in southern Labrador. Arctic 46(1): 27-34.


Auger, Réginald

1989  Labrador Inuit and Europeans in the Strait of Belle Isle: From the Witten Sources to the Archaeological Evidence. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Calgary, Calgary


Baehra, Rainer

2010  Ethnological and Anthropological Explorations of the Labrador "Eskimo" Before 1880. In Very Rough Country: Proceedings of the Labrador Exploration Symposium, edited by Martha MacDonald, pp. 228-250. Labrador Institute of Memorial University, Happy Valley-Goose Bay.


Beaudoin, Matthew

2008  Sweeping the Floor: An Archaeological Examination of a Multi-Ethnic Sod House in Labrador (FkBg-24). M.A. Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's.


Beaudoin, Matthew

2008  A Labrador Métis sod structure in southern Labrador (FkBg-24). Provincial Archaeology Office 2007 Archaeology Review 6: 6-7.


Beaudoin, Matthew, Richard L. Jordan and Lisa K. Rankin

2010  Attributing cultural affiliation to sod structures in Labrador: A Labrador Metis example from North River. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 34(2): 148-173.


Borlase, Tim

1994  The Labrador Settlers, Metis and Kablunângajuit. Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N-L: Labrador East Integrated School Board.


Brewster, Natalie

2006  The Inuit in Southern Labrador: The View from Snack Cove. Occasional Papers in Northeastern Archaeology No. 15. Copetown Press, St. John's.


Cabak, Melanie Ann

1991  Inuit Women as Catalysts of Change: An Archaeological Study of 19th Century Northern Labrador. M.A. thesis, University of South Carolina, Columbia.


Cabak, Melanie Ann and Stephen Loring

2000  A Set of Very Fair Cups and Saucers: Stamped Ceramics as an Example of Inuit Incorporation. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 4(1):1-34.


Cartwright, George

1792  A Journal of Transactions and Events During a Residence of Nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador. Allin and Ridge, Newark.


Cary, Henry C.

2004  Hoffnungsthal: The Archaeology and Architecture of the First Moravian Mission to the Labrador Inuit, 1752. M.A. Thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's.


Clermont, Norman

1980  Les Inuit du Labrador méridional avant Cartwright. Etude/Inuit/Studies 4(1-2): 147-166.


Friesen, T. Max and Charles D. Arnold

2008  The Timing of the Thule Migration: New Dates from the Western Canadian Arctic. American Antiquity 73(3): 527-538.


Felsberg, Susan

2010  People: Labrador's Very First Export. In Very Rough Country: Proceedings of the Labrador Exploration Symposium, edited by Martha MacDonald, pp. 214-227. Labrador Institute of Memorial University, Happy Valley-Goose Bay.


Fitzhugh, William W.

2011  An Inuit Winter House on Petit Mecatina (Hare Harbor-1, EdBt-3) and Notes on the Harp Seal Failure of 2010. Provincial Archaeology Office 2009 Archaeology Review 9: 37-50.


Fitzhugh, William W., Anja Herzog, Sophia Perdikaris and Brenna McLeod

2011  Ship to Shore: Inuit, Early Europeans, and Maritime Landscapes in the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence. In The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes: When the Land Meets the Sea, edited by Ben Ford, pp. 99-108. Springer, New York.


Hiller, J. K.

1971  The Moravians in Labrador, 1771-1805. Polar Record 15(99): 839-854.


Jordan, Richard and Susan Kaplan

1980  An Archaeological View of the Inui/European Contact Period in Central Labrador. Études/Inuit/Studies 4(1-2): 35-45.


Josephs, Richard and Matthew Beaudoin

2010  Micromorphological Investigations of the Occupation Surface at Site FkBg 24: A 19th Century Multi Ethnic (Metis?) Sod House Floor, North River, Labrador. North Atlantic Archaeology 2: 67-80.


Jurakic, Irena

2007  Up North: European Ceramics and Tobacco Pipes at the Nineteenth-Century Contact Period Inuit Winter Village Site of Kongu (IgCx-7), Nachvak Fiord, Northern Labrador. M.A. thesis, Memorial University, St. John's.


Kaplan, Susan

1985  European Goods and Socio-economic Change in Early Labrador Inuit Society. In Cultures in Contact, edited by William Fitz-hugh, pp. 45-69. Smithsonian Institution, Washington.


Kaplan, Susan

1985  Eskimo-European Contact Archaeology in Labrador, Canada. In Comparative Studies in the Archaeology of Colonialism, edited by S. Dyson, pp. 53-76. British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 283.


Kaplan, Susan

1983  Economic and Social Change in Labrador Neo-Eskimo Culture. Ph.D. dissertation, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.


Kaplan, Susan and J.M. Woollett

2000  Challenges and Choices: Exploring the Interplay of Climate, History and Culture on Canada's Labrador Coast. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 32(2): 351-359.


Kennedy, J.C.

1997 Labrador Métis Ethrogenesis. Ethnos 62(3-4): 5-23.


Kennedy, John C.

1995  People of the Bays and Headlands: Anthropological History and the Fate of Communities in the Unknown Labrador. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.


Martijn, Charles A.

2009  Historic Inuit Presence in Northern Newfoundland Circa 1550-1800 CE. In Painting the Past with a Broad Brush: Papers in Honour of James Valliere Wright, edited by David L. Keenlyside and Jean-Luc Pilon, pp. 65-101. Canadian Museum of Civilization Mercury Series, Gatineau.


McGhee, R.

2009  When and Why Did the Inuit Move to the Arctic. In The Northern World AD 900-1400: The Dynamic of Climate, Economy, and Politics in Hemispheric Perspective, edited by Herbert Maschner, Owen Mason and Robert McGhee, pp. 155-164. University of Utah Press, Utah.


McGhee, Robert

2009  The Population Size and Temporal Duration of Thule Culture in Arctic Canada. In On the Track of the Thule Culture, From Alaska to East Greenland, edited by Bjarni Gronnow. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen.


McGhee, Robert

2000  Radiocarbon Dating and the Timing of the Thule Migration. In Identities and Cultural Contacts in the Arctic: Proceedings from a Conference at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, edited by Martin Applet, Joel Berglund and Hans Christian Gulløv. The Danish National Museum and Danish Polar Center.


Mitchell, Greg.

2010  Inuktitut in Southern Labrador; A Brief Review of Historical Word Lists. Them Days 34(4): 34-37.


Rankin, Lisa and Amanda Crompton

2012  The Labrador Métis and the Politics of Identity: Understanding the Archaeological Past to Negotiate a Sustainable Future. In Heritage 2012: 3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, edited by R. Amoêda, S. Lira and C. Pinheiro, pp. 1435-1443. Greenlines Institute, Barcelos, Portugal.


Rankin, Lisa, Matthew Beaudoin, and Natalie Brewster

2012  Southern Exposure: The Inuit of Sandwich Bay, Labrador. In Settlement, Subsistence and Change Among the Labrador Inuit: The Nunatsiavummiut Experience, edited by David C. Natcher, Lawrence Felt and Andrea Procter, pp. 61-84. University of Manitoba Press, Winnepeg.


Rankin, Lisa K.

2010  A People for All Seasons: Expressions of Inuit Identity Over the Past 500 years in Southern Labrador. In Identity Crisis: Archaeological Perspectives on Social Identity, edited by Lindsay Amundsen Meyer et al., pp. 332-340. University of Calgary, Calgary.


Rankin, Lisa K.

2007  Sandwich Bay Archaeological Reconnaissance. Provincial Archaeology Office 2006 Archaeology Review 6: 22-23.


Rollmann, Hans.

2011  ‘So fond of the pleasure to shoot’: The Sale of Firearms to Inuit on Labrador's North Coast in the Late Eighteenth Century. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 26 (1): 5-24.


Rollmann, Hans.

2010  Moravians in Central Labrador: The Indigenous Inuit Mission of Jacobus and Salome at Snooks Cove. Journal of Moravian Studies 9 (Fall): 7-40.


Rollmann, Hans.

2009  Moravian Beginnings in Labrador: Papers from a Symposium held in Makkovik and Hopedale. Occasional Publication of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, No. 2, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Faculty of Arts Publications, St. John's.


Rollmann, Hans.

2002  Labrador Through Moravian Eyes: 250 Years of Art, Photographs & Records. Special Celebrations Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Tourism, Culture, and Recreation, St. John's.


Savours, Ann

1963  Early Eskimo Visitors to Britain. Geographical Magazine 36.6: 336-343.


Stopp, M. and G. Mitchell.

2010  'Our Amazing Visitors': Catherine Cartwright's Account of Labrador Inuit in England. Arctic 63(4): 399-413.


Stopp, Marianne.

2002  Reconsidering Inuit Presence in Southern Labrador. Études/Inuit/Studies 25(2): 71-106.


Trudel, F.

1980  Les relations entre les Français et les Inuit au Labrador Méridional, 1660-1760. Études/Inuit/Studies 4(1-2): 135-146.


Tuck, James

1985   1984 Excavations at Red Bay, Labrador. In Archaeology in Newfoundland and Labrador 1984, edited by J.S. Thomson and C. Thomson, pp. 224-247. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's.


Whitridge, Peter

2008  Reimagining the Iglu: Modernity and the Challenge of the Eighteenth Century Labrador Inuit Winter House. Archaeologies 4(2): 288-309.


Whitridge, Peter and James Woollett

2009   2008 Fieldwork at Green Island 6 and Napaktok Bay 1, Northern Labrador. Provincial Archaeology Office 2008 Archaeology Review 7: 147-154.


Woollett, James M.

2007  Labrador Inuit Subsistence in the Context of Environmental Change: An Initial Landscape History Perspective. American Anthropologist 109(1): 69-84.


Woollett, James

2003  An Historical Archaeology of Labrador Inuit Culture Change. Ph.D. Thesis, City University of New York, New York.


Primary Sources


HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY ARCHIVES
LABRADOR POST RECORDS
(Hudson's Bay Company Archives are a division of
the Archives of Manitoba, Winnipeg)


Document
Reference No.
Document Type Years Reel No.
AILLIK
Post Number: B.241   Years Covered: 1855-1876
B.241/a/1-6 Post Journals 1855-1870 1M2
B.241/a/7-10 1871-1876 1M994
CARTWRIGHT
Post Number: B.259   Years covered: 1860-1942
B.259/a/1-5 Post Journals 1886-1891 1M996
B.259/a/6-18 1891-1907 1M997
B.259/a/19-27 1907-1925 1MA12
B.259/27-32 1924-1942 1MA13
B.259/b/1 Correspondence Books 1894-1900 1M1040
B.259/c/1 Correspondence Inward 1885-1918 1MB15
B.259/c/1 1885-1918 1MB16
B.259/d/1-12 Account Books 1874-1894 1M1347
B.259/d/12-29 Some accounts are found under correspondence 1876-1916 1M1348
B.259/d/29-31 books 1894-1904 1M1349
B.259/e/1-5 Reports on Districts 1891-1901 1M1254
B.259/z/1 Miscellaneous Items 1860-1870 1M874
B.259/z/2   1871-1901 Not filmed
CUL-DE-SAC
Post Number: B:48   Years covered: 1845-1846


Document
Reference No.
Document Type Years Reel No.
B.48/a/1 Post Journals
(includes accounts.)
1845-1846 1M38
DAVIS INLET
Post Number: B.52   Years covered: 1869-1928
B.52/a/1-2 Post Journals 1869-1872 1M41
B.52/a/3-16   1872-1895 1M1001
B.52/a/16-28   1891-1905 1M1002
B.52/a/29-37   1906-1926 1MA21
B.52/a/38   1927-1928 1MA22
B.52/b/1 Correspondence Books 1901-1909 1M1058
B.52/b/1   1901-1909 1M1059
B.52/b/2   1909-1915 Not filmed
B.52/c/1 Correspondence Inward 1869 1M270
B.52/c/2   1871-1900 1MB18
B.52/c/2   1871-1900 1MB19
B.52/c/3   1901-1910 Missing
B.52/d/1-15 Account Books 1871-1887 1M1373
B.52/d/15-24   1883-1895 1M1374
B.52/d/24-36   1877-1903 1M1375
B.52/d/36-46   1895-1908 1M1376
B.52/d/46-58   1905-1911 1M1377
B.52/d/58-78   1881-1920 1M1378
B.52/d/78-89   1872-1911 1M1379
B.52/e/1-8 Reports on Districts 1889-1911 1M1255
B.52/z/1 Miscellaneous Items 1869-1870 1M875
B.52/z/2-3   1871-1910 Not filmed
FRENCHMAN'S ISLAND
Post Number: B.410   Years covered: 1928-1932
B.140/a/1-2 Post Journals 1928-1932 1MA24
GRADY HARBOUR
Post Number: B.479   Years covered: 1874-1879
B.479/d/1 Account Books 1875-1878 1M1400
B.479/d/1-2   1874-1879 1M1401
B.479/z/1 Miscellaneous Items 1875-1879 Not filmed
HEBRON
Post Number: B.418   Years covered: 1926-1942
B.418/a/1-3 Post Journals 1926-1942 1MA29
HOPEDALE
Post Number: B.420   Years covered: 1926-1942
B.420/a/1-5 Post Journals 1926-1942 1MA30
KAIPOKOK
Post Number: B.95   Years covered: 1838-1880
B.95/a/1-3 Post Journals (Contain correspondence.) 1850-1854 1M65
B.95/a/4-8 1855-1866 1M66
B.95/a/9 1876-1877 1M1007
B.95/c/1 Correspondence Inward 1838 1M271
B.95/d/1-2 Account Books 1846-1867 1M500
  (Some accounts are found under post journals.)    
B.95/z/1 Miscellaneous Items 1848 1M878
B.95/z/2   1880 Not filmed


Document
Reference No.
Document Type Years Reel No.
E.37/15 Private Records
associated with this
post are available.
1845-1846 4M133
FORT LAMPSON
Post Number: B.112   Years covered: 1867-1874
B.112/a/1 Post Journals 1874 1M1007
B.112/a/1   1874 1M1008
B.112/d/1 Account Books 1867-1868 1M509
E.285 Private Records
associated with this
post are available.
1864 Not filmed
MAKKOVIK
Post Number: B.437   Years covered: 1926-1941
B.437/a/1-3 Post Journals 1926-1941 1MA38
MICHIKAMAU HOUSE
Post Number: B.128   Years covered: 1845-1849
B.128/a/1-3 Post Journals 1845-1849 1M79
  Some post journals
contain correspondence
and/or accounts.
   
NACHVAK
Post Number: B.138   Years covered: 1868-1905
B.138/z/1 Post Journals 1868-1869 1M96
B.138/a/2-10   1871-1905 1M1012
B.138/e/1-3 Reports on Districts 1889-1895 1M1257
B.138/z/1 Miscellaneous Items 1902 Not filmed
NAIN
Post Number: B.443   Years covered: 1926-1941
B.443/a/1-3 Post Journals 1926-1941 1MA43
FORT NASCOPIE
Post Number: B.139   Years covered: 1842-1869
B.139/a/1-12 Post Journals 1842-1858 1M96
B.139/a/13-17 Some post journals
contain correspondence.
1858-1863 1M97
B.139/c/1 Correspondence Inward 1847 1M377
B.139/d/1 Account Books 1867-1868 1M539
B.139/d/2   1868-1869 1M540
NORTH WEST RIVER
Post Number: B.153   Years covered: 1836-1920
B.153/a/1-11   1836-1851 1M105
B.153/a/12-21   1850-1871 1M106
B.153/a/22-32 Post Journal 1871-1893 1M1013
B.153/a/33-44   1893-1905 1M1014
B.153/a/45-49   1905-1920 1MA45
B.153/b/1-4 Correspondence Books 1838-1851 1M217
  Some correspondence is
found under post journals.
   
B.153/c/1 Correspondence Inward 1838-1859 1M377
B.153/d/1 Account Books 1836-1837 1M541
B.153/e/1-2 Reports on Districts 1838 1M781
B.153/e/3-8 1889-1910 1M1257
B.153/g/1-6 Abstracts of Servants' Accounts 1859-1872 1M796
B.153/z/1 Miscellaneous Items 1836-1870 1M886


Document
Reference No.
Document Type Years Reel No.
B.153/z/2   1888-1903 Not filmed
NUTAK
Post Number: B.448   Years covered: 1941-1942
B.448/a/1 Post Journals 1941-1942 1MA46
OKAK
Post Number: B.451   Years covered: 1927-1928
B.45/a/1 Post Journals 1927-1928 1MA47
RIGOLET
Post Number: B.183   Years covered: 1836-1928
B.183/a/1-15   1838-1860 1M122
B.183/a/16-23   1860-1872 1M123
B.183/a/24-30 Post Journals 1872-1892 1M1020
B.183/a/31-36   1892-1906 1M1021
B.183/a/37-42   1906-1924 1MA59
B.183/a/42-47   1923-1942 1MA60
B.183/b/1a-2   1861-1872 1M219
B.183/b/3 vol 1   1875-1886 1M1145
B.183/b/3 vol 1-2   1875-1894 1M1146
B.183/b/3 vol 2-4 Correspondence Books 1883-1900 1M1147
B.183/b/3 vol 4-5 Some correspondence is
found under post journals.
1897-1902 1M1148
B.183/b/3 vol 5-6   1900-1906 1M1149
B.183/b/3 vol 6   1902-1906 1M1150
B.183/b/4 vol 1   1887-1892 1M1150
B.183/c/1 Correspondence Inward 1841-1858 1M380
B.183/c/2 1875-1943 1MB96
B.183/d/1-3 Account Books 1836-1870 1M579
B.183/d/4-5 Some accounts are found
under post journals.
1866-1911 1M1571
B.183/e/1-8 Reports on Districts 1886-1911 1M1258
B.183/z/1 Miscellaneous Items 1836-1872 1M892
B.183/z/2-5 1858-1956 Not filmed
ST. JOHN'S AGENCY
Post Number: B.476   Years covered: 1918-1932
B.476/a/1-11 Post Journals 1918-1932 1MA63
B.476/e/1 Reports on Districts 1919-1920 Not filmed
FORT TRIAL
Post Number: B.374   Years covered by the records: 1858-1861
B.374/a/1-2 Post Journals 1858-1861 1M146
WINOKAPAU
Post Number: B.237   Years covered: 1863-1874
B.237/a/1-5 Post Journals (Vol. 1
contains correspondence.)
1863-1869 1M154
B.237/a/6 1873-1874 1M1027