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Agawa Pictograph Site
One of the most famous pictograph sites in Canada is found in AGAWA BAY, within LAKE SUPERIOR PROVINCIAL PARK. The site's name in OJIBWA is Mazinaubikiniguning, which means "the adorned rock on Agawa Lake." The site...
Bache Peninsula Archaeological Sites
The Bache Peninsula archaeological sites are located on ELLESMERE ISLAND in Nunavut. The sites were occupied about 4200 years ago by hunting bands believed to have originated from northeast Asia and Alaska. Remains of...
Bloody Falls
Bloody Falls are rapids located about 15 km above the mouth of the COPPERMINE RIVER in the central Arctic. The falls were named by European explorer Samuel HEARNE in 1771, after he witnessed the massacre of local INUIT by...
Bluefish Caves
Bluefish Caves contain the oldest undisturbed archaeological evidence in Canada. Located on a limestone ridge overlooking the upper Bluefish River in the Keele Range of the northern YT, the caves consist of 3 small cavities in...
Boyd's Cove
Boyd's Cove, in eastern NOTRE DAME BAY, Newfoundland, has been occupied intermittently for about 2000 years. BEOTHUK pit houses dating from the late 17th or the early 18th century have yielded stone tools lying nearby...
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