Article: Further documentation supporting the former existence of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in northern Quebec-Labrador.

ABSTRACT. The discovery in 1976 of a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) skull in an 18th-century Labrador Inuit midden effectively ended speculation about the former existence of the species in the barrenlands of northern Quebec and Labrador. We analyzed a photograph of a bear skull taken in 1910 at an Innu camp in the Labrador interior (east of the George River), which appears to be that of a grizzly bear. Coupled with previously unpublished historical accounts by Lucien Turner (Smithsonian naturalist in northern Quebec, 1881-83) and William Duncan Strong (anthropologist in Labrador, 1928-29), Innu oral history accounts, and archaeological evidence, this photograph further ...

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