Early European settlement and exploitation in Atlantic Canada
Subtitle: selected papers
By: edited by G.M. Story.
Contributors: Story, G. M. 1927-; International Symposium on Early European Settlement and Exploitation in Atlantic Canada (1979 : Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Publisher: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Published: 1982
Place of publication: St. John's, Nfld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Canada, Eastern -- Discovery and exploration -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Selected papers from the International Symposium on Early European Settlement and Exploitation in Atlantic Canada, held in Oct. 1979 at Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Nfld.
Table of contents: title: The owl of Minerva / Leslie Harris; title: Newfoundland in the consciousness of Europe in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / D.B. Quinn; title: Possible Norse-Eskimo contacts in the eastern Arctic / Robert McGhee; title: A sixteenth-century whaling station at Red Bay, Labrador / J.A. Tuck; title: The documentary evidence for Basque whaling ships in the Strait of Belle Isle / Selma Barkham; title: The Cupids Cove settlement / Gillian T. Cell; title: Avalon : Lord Baltimore's colony in Newfoundland / Raymond J. Lahey; title: Response of native peoples to European contact / Bruce G. Trigger.