Government officials from Canada’s easternmost coast confirmed last week that local history buff and amateur archaeologist Edward Hynes unearthed the country’s oldest-known coin of English origin this ...

Indigenous groups created the small beads from mollusk shells. They're the first artifacts of their kind ever found at the Colony of Avalon in Newfoundland ...

The discovery of a rare gold coin on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada, may challenge traditional historical narratives about the timing of European contact in the region, as it predates ...

Bored with ordinary place names? Have a hankering to send a postcard from someplace like Virgin Tickle or Joe Batt`s Arm or Ha Ha Bay? Or maybe visit Blow Me Down Park? Don`t get in a hobble about it.

NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA—North Shore News reports that archaeologist William Gilbert and his colleagues at the Cupids Cove Plantation Provincial Historic Site uncovered a Henry VII half groat, a silver ...