Nunatsiavut Government Archaeology

03/24/2025

Great opportunity with the Nunatsiavut Government Department of Language, Culture and Tourism's Archaeology Team

CLOSING: April 7, 2025

03/05/2025

https://careers.nunatsiavut.com/job-listings/archaeologist-i/

Interested in a career in Archaeology?
Nunatsiavut Government is hiring in the position of Archaeologist I. Assistant to the Nunatsiavut Archaeologist.
Please feel free to share!
Apply before March 19th, 2025

CLOSING: March 19, 2025

08/19/2024

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01/19/2024

Nunatsiavut Government Archaeology is seeking bids on a contract to georeference a collection of historic air photos. Please find project details and instructions at the link below, and contact us with any questions!

RFP Georeferencing Air Photos

12/04/2023

NG Archaeology has a copy of Avanimiut in the office library. If you would like to look at it, come on by. If you would like to purchase, they are available at Memorial University Press, Co-op in Goose Bay, possibly even Slippers and Things. CLO offices in Nunatsiavut communities will have some eventually. Nunatsiavut's very own Lena Onalik helped Andrea Procter to revise and get this work published. Congratulations!!

11/07/2023

Early in 2022, through some complicated connections, NG Archaeology and Heritage was contacted by Ray Chipeniuk who wished to donate a collection of photographs from trips he took to Nunatsiavut in the 1970s and 1980s.

In his own words,

"Starting in 1973, so nearly fifty years ago, I organized and led a long series of minor mountaineering expeditions to the Torngat, Kaumajet, and Kiglapait Mountains. Usually my companions and I travelled from Nain to the northern mountains aboard a trap boat owned and operated by an Inuk skipper, Paul Nochasak. His wife Eva and sometimes their sons or friends accompanied us. Once our group was carried on a second trap boat, and in 1985 we flew in from what was then called Fort Chimo. Our trips typically lasted about a month, during which time the Inuit with us would stay on the boat or in a camp ashore close to it while the climbers would hike or backpack inland to the mountains. Paul would hunt caribou and seals. One of our “teams” made the first Canadian ascent of what is now called Mt. Caubvik, in 1974. Two of us climbed the great snow gully of the Bishop’s Mitre. We “explored” the mountain country from Eclipse Channel to Saglek Fiord. During all these trips I kept journals.

Besides the journals, I also own and have on my shelves in the basement at least a dozen books about Labrador, photocopied articles, maps, many 35 mm colour slides, and so on.

Thank you for your time and attention."

Ray Chipeniuk"

This donation was welcomed and the 35mm slides have now been scanned at archival quality and added to the archives maintained by the Nunatsiavut Government. The pictures themselves show the expected mix of mountaineering, wildlife, and travel shots, but also include photos of Nain and community members.

Included here is a small selection of Mr. Chipeniuk’s photos, with his original captions. We hope to make the full collection, and others, available online in the coming months.

08/11/2023

05/26/2023

Reminder - happening this Saturday in Nain, Sunday in Hopedale, and Monday in Makkovik!

Please join the Uncommon Bonds team in their Open House tour later this month! For more information about the project, please visit https://uncommonbonds.org/ .

05/15/2023

Please join the Uncommon Bonds team in their Open House tour later this month! For more information about the project, please visit https://uncommonbonds.org/ .

04/24/2023

Volume 21 for 2022 Field Season of the Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review is now on line and can be downloaded at the link below, along with those from previous years. See inside for the entry by our own Nunatsiavut Government Archaeology, along with interesting work being done all across the province!

Volume 21 for 2022 Field Season of the Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review is now on line and can be found at the bottom of this page.
https://www.gov.nl.ca/tcar/archaeology/arch-resources/archaeology-reviews-and-reports/

07/25/2022

We are still looking to hire a bear guard for the upcoming Hebron Family Archaeology Project, from July 30 - August 6. Bear guards should have a valid FAC/PAL and bear guard training. Message us or call Lena Onalik at 922-2942 ext. 240 or 899-0466 if you're interested!