Publisher's Synopsis
Newfoundland and Labrador History and Culture for tourism. Information. Newfoundland and Labrador's first residents, the Maritime Archaic Indians, left behind North America's oldest-known funeral mound in southern Labrador in what is now the L'Anse Amour National Historic Site of Canada. The Beothuk and Innu didn't arrive until 2,000 years ago, while the descendants of Labrador's current Inuit population first migrated around 1,000 years ago. Around 1000 AD, Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula became the first known piece of North American land seen by European eyes when a Viking crew established a camp at the present day L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. After the Viking village was abandoned, Newfoundland remained undiscovered by Europeans until John Cabot docked in Bonavista in 1497
