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Evidence supports the idea that the Thule (and, to a lesser degree, the Dorset) were in contact with the Vikings, who had reached the shores of Canada in the 11th century as part of the Norse colonization of North America.
Thule Group AB (/ ˈ t uː l iː /) is a Swedish company that owns brands related to outdoor and transportation products. These include cargo carriers for automobiles and other outdoor and storage products, with 4,700 points of sale in 136 countries worldwide.
The Government of Canada's Translation Bureau recommends using hyphens between groups; e.g. 250-555-0199. [2] Using the format specified by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Recommendation E.164 for telephone numbers, a Canadian number is written as +1NPANXXXXXX , with no spaces, hyphens, or other characters; e.g. +12505550199 .
There is evidence of contact as seen through the Thule archaeological record, including ivory depictions of the Norse as well as bronze and steel artifacts. In the 20th century, there was little evidence for Thule artifacts among Norse habitations, [ 22 ] however it is now known that Thule artifacts are found among Norse habitations, indicating ...
Tryggvi Julius Oleson, FRSC, (1912–1963) was a Canadian historian from Manitoba.Of Icelandic heritage, he specialised in the early medieval period and Norse history.He was the author of Early Voyages and Northern Approaches, the first volume in the Canadian Centenary Series, a collection of historical texts by leading historians to commemorate the centennial of Canada in 1967.
Based on archeological finds, Brooman Point Village is an abandoned village in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the central High Arctic near Brooman Point ( 75°23′00″N 097°17′30″W / 75.38333°N 97.29167°W / 75.38333; -97.29167 ( Brooman Point ) [ 1 ] ) of the Gregory Peninsula, part of the eastern ...
The evidence suggested that Inuit descend from the Birnirk of Siberia, who through the Thule culture expanded into northern Canada and Greenland, where they genetically and culturally completely replaced the Indigenous Dorset people some time after 1300 AD. [185] Inuit people tend to have the dry variant of human earwax. [186]
The level of contact is currently the subject of widespread debate, possibly including Norse trade with Thule or Dorsets in Canada. Whether the Thule interbred with the medieval Norse cannot be clearly determined from the genetic data, since the modern Greenlandic Inuit population has substantial admixture from the later Danish colonial period ...