National Archives of Canada C-28544 Some of the Beothuk however were probably captured by the early European arrivals. In 1501, four years after John Cabot first encountered an abandoned Beothuk ...

Hostages were exchanged as a gesture of trust; two of Buchan's men were left at the Beothuk camp, while two natives went with him, intending to return with gifts. The Beothuk were worried that ...