Another archaic symbol of Canada's colonial past is under the microscope. The Newfoundland and Labrador government confirmed this week it plans to redesign the province's 400-year-old coat of arms ...

Aboriginal groups want bones of the extinct Beothuk people to be removed from museum vaults and brought back to Newfoundland. A woman named Shanawdithit was the last known member of her people, with ...

There's a call for a more fitting memorial in St. John's to Shanawdithit, the last-known Beothuk, as well as a day to mark Indigenous history in Newfoundland and Labrador.

For centuries, the Beothuk were the aboriginal inhabitants of the island of Newfoundland. The woman beleived to be the last remaining Beothuk died in 1829. Not nearly as much is known about them ...

Perhaps some Newfoundlanders are blasé about the extinction of the Beothuk, but Michael Crummey is not one of them. He grew up in Buchans, a small mining town in the centre of the province, near ...

Glenn Alteen, program director at grunt, said the kidnapping and murder of Demasduit and Nonosabasut wasn’t an isolated incident.It was close to the final chapter for the Beothuk. During 300 ...