They have gone back to their country

French landscapes and Inuit encounters in 18th century southern Labrador

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ID3186787
AuthorsAmanda Crompton (0000-0003-2065-9286, Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador A1C 5S7, Canada, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume39
Issue1
Pages117-140
Publication date2016-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueÉtudes/Inuit/Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0701-1008 • E-ISSN: 1708-5268
PublisherConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/1036080ar
OpenAlexW2464302198
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited17

Although French and Basque fishing and whaling crews had been coming to southern Labrador since the early sixteenth century, colonization in a more permanent form would not begin until the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Emerging as an outgrowth of similar colonial efforts along Quebec's Lower North Shore, colonization of Labrador was driven by Canadian interests and administered by colonial officials in Québec. However, the simple possession of Labrador landscapes was not equivalent to their successful exploitation. Detailed study of one land grant in Red Bay-St. Modet demonstrates how tenuous the possession of lands in Labrador could be, whether challenges came from French rivals or from Inuit raids. This article uses historical, cartographic, and archaeological evidence to discuss how the French established, contested, and used Labrador land concessions, and explores how Inuit reacted to the increasing encroachments of the French

Archaeology · Bay · Colonialism · Colonization · Ethnology · Fishery · Fishing · Geography · Political science · Possession (linguistics · Shore · Whaling · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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