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Blanc-Sablon National Historic Site Marker
Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 27, 2014
Caption: Blanc-Sablon National Historic Site Marker
Additional Description: Captions (English / French): (clockwise from the upper left) Research has revealed that Aboriginal people lived here in oval tents with wooden frames covered with skins of bark, similar to the tipi. Over the past 2,000 years they also lived in an elongated (long house) tents that could house several families for months at a time. / Les Amérindiens vivaient ici dans des tentes ovales dotées d’une armature de bois couverte de peaux ou d’écorces, semblables au tipi. Au cours des deux millénaires, il ont également véce dans des tents allongées (maisons commune) que abritaient plusieurs familles pendant des mois entiers.; Territory included within the Blanc-Sablon National Historic Site, / Limite du lieu historique national de Blanc-Sablon.; (Arrow points, right side, top to bottom) 5,000-year-old quartz arrowhead. A stone tool from the Maritime Archaic Tradition which characterised the first five millennia of Aboriginal presence in the region. / Pointe de quartz datant de 5 000 ans. Un outil de pierre de la tradition de l’Archaique maritime, une tradition que caractérise les cinq premiers millenaries de la présence autochtone dans la région.; Paleioeskimo arrowhead dating from between 3,000 and 1,500 years ago. / Pointe paléo-esquimaude datant de 1500 à 3000 ans.; An Aboriginal chert arrowhead from Newfoundland, 500 to 700 years ago. One of the artefacts that testify to a vast trading network that stretched from Northern Labrador to Southern Ontario. / Une point en chert de Terre-Neuve datant de 500 à 700 ans. Un des artéfacts attestant de l’existence d’un vaste d’échanges s’étendant du nord du Labrador jusqu’au sud de l’Ontario.; (bottom, center) Nail used to build wharves and stages. Part of the remains of an 18th century French fishing wharf and a 19th century English fishing installation. / Cous servant à bâtir des quais et les chafauds ou plateformes. Un des vestiges d’un quai de pêche français du 18ᵉ siècle et d’une installation de pêche anglaise du 19ᵉ siècle.
Submitted: December 11, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p295027
File Size: 3.357 Megabytes

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