Norse in Newfoundland

In the early 1960s, a Norwegian team discovers the ruins of a settlement at Newfoundland’s L’Anse aux Meadows, proving the Norse ventured to North America more than 500 years earlier than Christopher Columbus.

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  • Government of Canada
  • HBC: Hudson's Bay Company
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