Twillingate
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Twillingate is a town of 2,121 people located on the Twillingate Islands in Notre Dame Bay, off the north eastern shore of the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Cana
A view of Twillingate
A newer looking wharf in the area
Twillingate harbour. 1997
Marital status of Twillingate residents
Beothuk
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The Beothuk were a group of Indigenous who lived on the island of Newfoundland.
Twillingate
…the area were the Maritime Archaic, who occupied the area 3,500 years ago in roughly 1500 BC. The Maritime Archaic people were later supplanted by the Beothuk, and possibly the Dorset Inuit, who occupied the area until the arrival of European settlers. The French had been fishing in the area possibly as early…
Demasduit, 1819
Statue of Shanawdithit in Boyd's Cove
The Beothuk tribe of Newfoundland is extinct as a cultural group. It is represented in museum, historical and archaeological records.