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L'Anse aux Meadows

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L'Anse aux Meadows (from the French L'Anse-aux-Méduses or "Jellyfish Cove"), is an archaeological site on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. [1]

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Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, or the Age of Exploration (approximately from the beginning of the 15th century until the end of the 18th century) is an informal and loosely defined term for the period in European history in which extensive overseas exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture and was the beginning of globalization.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Anne Stine Ingstad

Anne Stine Ingstad (11 February 1918 – 6 November 1997) was a Norwegian archaeologist who, along with her husband Helge Ingstad, discovered the remains of a Viking (Norse) settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1960.

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Annie Proulx

Edna Ann Proulx (born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Appalachian Trail

The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply the A.T., is a marked hiking trail in the Eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine.

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Archaeology of Svalbard

The archaeology of Svalbard is the study of human activity in the northerly Arctic Ocean archipelago's past.

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Asterix

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois) is a series of French comics.

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Asterix and the Great Crossing

Asterix and the Great Crossing is the twenty-second volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations).

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Avayalik

Avayalik is an island at the far north of the Labrador Peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Íslendingur

Íslendingur (Icelandic: "Icelander") is a replica of the Gokstad viking ship and was sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 2000.

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Barry Fell

Barry Fell (born Howard Barraclough Fell) (June 6, 1917 – April 21, 1994) was a professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.

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Birgitta Wallace

Birgitta Linderoth Wallace (born 1944) is a Swedish–Canadian archaeologist specialising in the Norse colonisation of North America.

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Bjarni Herjólfsson

Bjarni Herjólfsson (fl. 10th century) was a Norse-Icelandic explorer who is believed to be the first known European discoverer of the mainland of the Americas, which he sighted in 986.

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Bog iron

Bog iron is a form of impure iron deposit that develops in bogs or swamps by the chemical or biochemical oxidation of iron carried in solution.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canada Post millennium stamps

Due to popular demand, Canada Post released the 68 specially designed stamps as a series of 17 Millennium souvenir sheets, each depicting four different stamps, starting December 17, 1999 through to March 17, 2000.

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Canada–Iceland relations

Canada – Iceland relations refer to international relations between Canada and Iceland.

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Canada–Norway relations

Canada–Norway relations are foreign relations between Canada and Norway.

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Canadian Commission for UNESCO

The Canadian Commission for UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) actively advances UNESCO’s mandate to contribute to peace based on the intellectual and moral solidarity of humankind by promoting cooperation among nations.

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Carl Christian Rafn

Carl Christian Rafn (January 16, 1795 – October 20, 1864) was a Danish historian, translator and antiquarian.

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CCGS Pierre Radisson

CCGS Pierre RadissonCCGS stands for Canadian Coast Guard Ship is the lead ship of her class of icebreakers.

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (before 31 October 145120 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer.

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Chronology of Western colonialism

This is a non-exhaustive chronology of colonialism-related events, which may reflect political events, cultural events, and important global events that have influenced colonization and decolonization.

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Colonization

Colonization (or colonisation) is a process by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its components.

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Columbus Day

Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492.

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Creepy Canada

Creepy Canada is a Canadian television series that aired on OLN.

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Crusader Gold

Crusader Gold is an archaeological adventure novel by David Gibbins.

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Dates of Epoch-Making Events

Dates of Epoch-Making Events is an entry in The Nuttall Encyclopaedia for its listing of the most important turning points in history, particularly western history.

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Davenport Tablets

The Davenport Tablets are three inscribed slate tablets found in mounds near Davenport, Iowa.

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Early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages or Early Medieval Period, typically regarded as lasting from the 5th or 6th century to the 10th century CE, marked the start of the Middle Ages of European history.

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European colonization of the Americas

The European colonization of the Americas describes the history of the settlement and establishment of control of the continents of the Americas by most of the naval powers of Europe.

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European medieval architecture in North America

Medieval architecture in North America is an anachronism.

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Exploration of North America

The exploration of North America by non-indigenous people was a continuing effort to map and explore the continent of North America.

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February 1918

The following events occurred in February 1918.

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Former colonies and territories in Canada

A number of states and polities formerly claimed colonies and territories in Canada prior to the evolution of the current provinces and territories under the federal system.

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Gary and Joanie McGuffin

Gary and Joanie McGuffin are Canadian explorers, conservation photographers, writers, motivational speakers, documentarians and conservationists.

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Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province in Canada.

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Grand Banks of Newfoundland

The Grand Banks of Newfoundland are a group of underwater plateaus south-east of Newfoundland on the North American continental shelf.

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Helge Ingstad

Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer.

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Helluland

Helluland is the name given to one of the three lands seen by Bjarni Herjólfsson, encountered by Leif Ericson and further explored by Þorfinnr "Karlsefni" Þórðarson around AD 1000 on the North Atlantic coast of North America.

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Heritage Minutes

Heritage Minutes, formerly known as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, is a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history.

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History of Canada

The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day.

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History of immigration to Canada

The history of immigration to Canada extends back thousands of years.

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History of New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick), is one of the three Maritime provinces in Canada, and the only officially bilingual province (English-French) in the country.

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History of Newfoundland and Labrador

The first brief European contact with Newfoundland and Labrador came about 1000 AD when the Vikings briefly settled in L'Anse aux Meadows.

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History of North America

History of North America encompasses the past developments of people populating the continent of North America.

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History of the Americas

The prehistory of the Americas (North, South, and Central America, and the Caribbean) begins with people migrating to these areas from Asia during the height of an Ice Age.

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Hvítárholt

Hvítárholt is a settlement located on the banks of the Hvítá in Hrunamannahreppur, Árnessýsla, Iceland.

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Icelanders

Icelanders (Íslendingar) are a Germanic ethnic group and nation, native to Iceland, mostly speaking the Germanic language Icelandic.

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Icelandic Americans

Icelandic Americans are Americans of Icelandic descent or Iceland-born people who reside in the United States.

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Icelandic Canadians

Icelandic Canadians are Canadian citizens of Icelandic ancestry or Iceland-born people who reside in Canada.

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Index of Newfoundland and Labrador-related articles

Articles related to the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador include.

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Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier (Jakez Karter; December 31, 1491September 1, 1557) was a Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France.

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Kingdom of Saguenay

The name "Kingdom of Saguenay" (Royaume du Saguenay) supposedly has its origin in an Iroquoian legend, as recorded by the French during French colonization in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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L'Anse

L'Anse may refer to:;In Canada.

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Leif Erikson

Leif Erikson or Leif Ericson (970 – c. 1020) was a Norse explorer from Iceland.

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Leif Erikson Day

Leif Erikson Day is an annual American observance which occurs on October 9.

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Leifsbudir

Leifsbudir (Old Norse: Leifsbuðir) was a settlement, mentioned in the Greenland Saga, founded by Leif Eriksson in 1000 or 1001 in Vinland.

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List of archaeological sites by country

This is a list of notable archaeological sites sorted by country and territories.

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List of battles (geographic)

This list of battles is organized geographically, by country in its present territory.

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List of cities in the Americas by year of foundation

This is a list of cities in the Americas (South, Central and North) by founding year and present-day country.

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List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador

This page lists communities of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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List of conflicts in Canada

List of conflicts in Canada is a timeline of events that includes wars, battles, skirmishes, major terrorist attacks, riots and other related items that have occurred in the country of Canada's current geographical area.

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List of conflicts in North America

This page lists all recorded conflicts, terrorist actions and wars that have or are currently taking place in the continent of North America.

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List of crossings of the Atlantic Ocean

This is a list of notable crossings of the Atlantic Ocean.

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List of English words of French origin (J–R)

A great number of words of French origin have entered the English language to the extent that many Latin words have come to the English language.

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List of historic places in western Newfoundland

This article is a list of historic places in western Newfoundland.

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List of museums in Newfoundland and Labrador

This list of museums in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

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List of National Historic Sites of Canada in Newfoundland and Labrador

This is a list of National Historic Sites (Lieux historiques nationaux) in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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List of North American settlements by year of foundation

This is a list of settlements in North America by founding year and present-day country.

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List of Norwegians

This is a list of notable people from Norway.

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List of oldest buildings

This article lists the oldest free-standing buildings constructed in the world, including on each of the continents and within each country.

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List of oldest buildings in Canada

This is a list of the oldest surviving buildings and structures of significance in each province and territory of Canada.

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List of royal tours of Canada (18th–20th centuries)

There was an extended royal presence in Canada through the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, either as an official tour, a vacation, a period of military service, or a viceregal posting by a member of the Royal Family.

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List of tourist attractions providing reenactment

The following is a list of tourist attractions, by country, that regularly use "living history" or historical reenactments either with professional actors or amateur groups.

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List of World Heritage Sites by year of inscription

This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world by year of inscription.

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List of World Heritage Sites in Canada

This is a list of World Heritage Sites in Canada.

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List of World Heritage Sites in North America

Below is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites located in North America.

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Longship

Longships were a type of ship invented and used by the Norsemen (commonly known as the Vikings) for commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age.

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Lost city

A lost city is a settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world.

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Maine

Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Maine penny

The Maine penny, also referred to as the Goddard coin, is a Norwegian silver coin dating to the reign of Olaf Kyrre King of Norway (1067–1093 AD).

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Médée Bay

Médée Bay is a natural bay off the island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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Meadow (disambiguation)

A meadow is a habitat where grasses predominate.

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Military history of Canada

The military history of Canada comprises hundreds of years of armed actions in the territory encompassing modern Canada, and interventions by the Canadian military in conflicts and peacekeeping worldwide.

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Millennium Bureau of Canada

Millennium Bureau of Canada was a small, temporary agency of the Government of Canada, to celebrate the "millennium" during the year 2000.

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Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; Akamassiss; Newfoundland Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradar) is the most easterly province of Canada.

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Newfoundland and Labrador Route 430

Route 430 is a 415 kilometer (258 mile) long paved highway that traverses the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Newfoundland and Labrador Route 436

Route 436 is a highway on the Northern Peninsula of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Norse colonization of North America

The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century AD when Norsemen explored and settled areas of the North Atlantic including the northeastern fringes of North America.

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Norstead

Norstead can refer to.

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Norstead (Newfoundland)

Norstead: A Viking Village and Port of Trade is a reconstruction of a Viking Age settlement.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Norwegian Americans

Norwegian Americans (norskamerikanere) are Americans with ancestral roots from Norway.

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Norwegian Canadians

Norwegian Canadians refer to Canadian citizens who identify themselves as being of full or partial Norwegian ancestry, or people who emigrated from Norway and reside in Canada.

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Norwegian of the Century

Norwegian of the Century (Århundrets nordmann) was a poll carried out by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 2005, the 100-year anniversary of Norwegian independence.

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Nunavut

Nunavut (Inuktitut syllabics ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) is the newest, largest, and northernmost territory of Canada.

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Old Stone Fort (Tennessee)

The Old Stone Fort is a prehistoric Native American structure located in Coffee County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States.

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Out of the Dark (Wilton Katz novel)

Out of the Dark (1995) is a children's novel by Canadian author Welwyn Wilton Katz.

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Outline of Newfoundland and Labrador

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador

Placentia is a town located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador Canada, It consists of the "Argentia Industrial Park" and amalgamated communities of Townside, Freshwater, Dunville, and Jerseyside.

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Point Rosee

Point Rosee (French: Pointe Rosée), previously known as Stormy Point, is a headland near Codroy at the southwest end of the island of Newfoundland, on the Atlantic coast of Canada.

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Politics of Newfoundland and Labrador

The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is governed by a unicameral legislature, the House of Assembly, which operates under the Westminster model of government.

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Population of Canada

Canada ranks 38th in total population while having the 2nd largest landmass, so the vast majority of the country is sparsely inhabited, with most of its population south of the 55th parallel north.

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Post-classical history

Post-classical history (also called the Post-Antiquity era, Post-Ancient Era, or Pre-Modern Era) is a periodization commonly used by the school of "world history" instead of Middle Ages (Medieval) which is roughly synonymous.

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Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories

Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories relate to visits or interactions with the Americas and/or indigenous peoples of the Americas by people from Africa, Asia, Europe, or Oceania before Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492.

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Quirpon, Newfoundland and Labrador

Quirpon is a small, picturesque community situated on the northern tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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Rune Monstad

Rune Monstad (born April 14, 1973), also known as The Viking Biker, is a Norwegian cyclist who is cycling the world on a 27-speed Gekko mountain bike.

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San Miguel de Guadalupe

San Miguel de Guadalupe, founded in 1526 by Spanish explorer Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón,In early 1521, Ponce de León had made a poorly documented, disastrous attempt to plant a colony near Charlotte Harbor, Florida but was quickly repulsed by the native Calusa.

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Sarah Parcak

Sarah Helen Parcak is an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and remote sensing expert, who has used satellite imaging to identify potential archaeological sites in Egypt, Rome, and elsewhere in the former Roman Empire.

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Scandinavian Canadians

Scandinavian Canadians or Nordic Canadians are Canadian citizens with ancestral roots in Scandinavia ("Scandinavia" as a geographic region has varying definitions.) However, they generally include.

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Severed Ways

Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America is a 2007 independent adventure drama film that tells a story of Norse explorers battling nature, natives and Christianity in North America in the year 1007 AD.

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Sheila NaGeira

The legend of Sheila NaGeira, the Irish Princess, claims that she was the first European woman to give birth in Newfoundland and quite possibly North America (although Virginia Dare is reported to have been born in the Roanoke Colony in 1587; and the Vinland Sagas record the birth of Snorri Thorfinnsson to Icelandic parents around the year 1005 in Vinland, possibly in the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows).

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Skálholt

Skálholt (Old Icelandic: Skálaholt) is a historical site in the south of Iceland, at the river Hvítá.

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Skræling

Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America and Greenland.

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Sod house

The sod house or "soddy" was a successor to the log cabin during frontier settlement of Canada and the United States.

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Sop's Arm

Sop's Arm is a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Spanish Americans

Spanish Americans (españoles estadounidenses, hispanoestadounidenses, españoles americanos or hispanonorteamericanos) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain.

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St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador

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St. Lunaire-Griquet

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Straumfjörð

Straumfjörð (Icelandic), or Straumfjǫrð (Old Norse) sometimes anglicised to Straumsfjordr,Sveinbjörn Þórðarsson.

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Territorial evolution of North America prior to 1763

Before contact with Europeans, the natives of North America were divided into many different polities, from small bands of a few families to large empires.

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The Ice-Shirt

The Ice-Shirt is a 1990 historical novel by American author William T. Vollmann.

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The Maritimes

The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces (Provinces maritimes) or the Canadian Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island (PEI).

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Thomas E. Lee

Thomas Edward Lee (1914–1982) was an archaeologist for the National Museum of Canada in the 1950s and discovered Sheguiandah on Manitoulin Island.

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Thorfinn Karlsefni

Thorfinn Karlsefni Þórðarson (Old Norse: Þorfinnr karlsefni Þórðarson, Icelandic: Þorfinnur karlsefni Þórðarson) was an Icelandic explorer.

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Timeline of archaeology, 2000s

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Timeline of Canadian history

This is a brief timeline of the history of Canada, comprising important social, economic, political, military, legal, and territorial changes and events in Canada and its predecessor states.

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Timeline of First Nations history

The history of First Nations is a prehistory and history of Canada's founding peoples from the earliest times to the present with a focus on First Nations.

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Timeline of historical geopolitical changes

This is a timeline of country and capital changes around the world.

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Timeline of Norse colonization of the Americas

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Timeline of the European colonization of North America

This is a chronology and timeline of the colonization of North America, with founding dates of selected European settlements.

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Timeline of the Middle Ages

Note: All dates are Common Era. The following is a timeline of the major events during the Middle Ages, a time period in human history mostly centered on Europe, which lies between classical antiquity and the modern era.

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Tourism in Canada

Canada has a large domestic and foreign tourism industry.

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Tyrker

Tyrker (or Tyrkir) is a character mentioned in the Norse Saga of the Greenlanders.

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Viking Age

The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) is a period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, following the Germanic Iron Age.

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Viking expansion

Viking expansion is the process by which the Vikings sailed most of the North Atlantic, reaching south to North Africa and east to Russia, Constantinople and the Middle East as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.

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Viking World museum

Viking World (Víkingaheimar) is a museum in Njarðvík, Reykjanesbær, Iceland.

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Vinland

Vinland, Vineland or Winland (Vínland) is the name for North American land explored by Norse Vikings, where Leif Erikson first landed 1000, approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot.

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Vinland map

The Vinland map is claimed to be a 15th-century mappa mundi with unique information about Norse exploration of North America.

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Vinland sagas

The Vinland Sagas are two Icelandic texts written independently of each other in the early thirteenth century; The Saga of the Greenlanders (Grænlendinga Saga) and The Saga of Eric the Red, (Eiríks Saga Rauða).

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Vinnland flag

Vinland flag is a Nordic Cross flag designed by Gothic metal band Type O Negative.

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Wareham, Ontario

Wareham is a community in Grey County, Ontario.

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Wonderstrands

Wonderstrands refers to the Furðustrandir, a stretch of coastline mentioned in the Icelandic ''Eiríks saga'', relating the deeds of Erik the Red.

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Yarmouth Runic Stone

The Yarmouth Runic Stone, also known as the Fletcher Stone, is a slab of quartzite that first came to the attention of the public in the early 19th Century.

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1000

Year 1000 (M) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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11th century in Canada

Events from the 11th century in Canada.

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11th century in North American history

This is a timeline of the 11th century in North American prehistory.

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1899 in archaeology

The year 1899 in archaeology involved some significant excavations.

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1918 in archaeology

The year 1918 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1960 in archaeology

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1960 in Canada

Events from the year 1960 in Canada.

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1961 in archaeology

The year 1961 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1968 in archaeology

The year 1968 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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1st millennium in Canada

Events from the first millennium AD in Canada.

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2001 in archaeology

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2010 Winter Olympics torch relay route

The route of the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay carried the torch through over 1000 communities across Canada, visiting different locations from October 30, 2009 to its final stop at BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 12, 2010.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Anse_aux_Meadows

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