The Gateways Project 2019. Excavations at Hart Chalet, Grand Isle, and Bonne Esperance

Abstract

This report documents archaeological fieldwork along the Quebec Lower North Shore in the northeastern Gulf of St. Lawrence between Blanc Sablon and Mutton Bay in 2019. The Hart Chalet 17th century Inuit winter village produced new collections from Houses 1 and 2, and at Grand Isle we fully excavated an Inuit winter house that appears to have been attacked and burned, providing archaeological evidence for historical and oral history reports of European and Innu (Indian) hostilities with Inuit. Boulder pit sites were mapped, and information on early European shipwrecks was gathered. Underwater surveys identified new Basque sites associated with small try-works and domestic collections.