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Beothuk Lake, formerly Red Indian Lake, is located in the interior of central Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The lake drains into the Exploits River which flows through the interior of Newfoundland and exits into the Atlantic Ocean through the Bay of Exploits .
Demasduit was a Beothuk woman, about 23 years old at the time she was captured by a party led by the fisherman John Peyton Sr. near Beothuk Lake in March 1819. [42] The governor of the Newfoundland Colony was seeking to encourage trade and end hostilities with the Beothuk.
Nonosabasut was one of a group of Beothuk who was encountered by David Buchan on January 24, 1811 at Beothuk Lake.Buchan had left two marines at the native camp while he, Nonosabasut and three other Beothuk went to retrieve a cache of presents Buchan had left behind.
The shores of the Bay of Exploits, the Exploits River and Beothuk Lake at its head, were among the last known haunts of the Beothuk people who generally are thought to have become extinct with the death of Shanawdithit in June 1829, though oral histories contend that a few may have survived for a while longer.
Beothuk Lake: A well documented Beothuk site, it is a camp where they wintered in well-built, multi-sided mamateeks and hunted the native caribou; occupied for many generations, it was abandoned sometime around 1820 Kitjigattalik - Ramah Chert Quarries [31]
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The Victoria River flows eastward from the Long Range Mountains into Beothuk Lake, which discharges into the Exploits River. It is 137 km in length. It is 137 km in length. Mouth of the Victoria River