uropean contact in the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries precipitated social, cultural
and technological changes that would have irreversible effects on
the lives of aboriginal peoples and the availability of marine
resources.
European Contact
Illustration by Frédéric Back
(Source: Claude Villeneuve and Frédéric Back, Le fleuve
aux grandes eaux (Les éditions Québec /
Amérique inc. - Société Radio-Canada:
1995))