Dorais Louis-Jacques. Inuit language in southern Labrador from 1694-1785 / La langue inuit au Sud du Labrador de 1964 à 1785

Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1980. — vi, 56+vi, 56 p. — (Canadian Ethnology Service. Mercury series 66).This study was made possible by an agreement with the National Museum of Man, and was undertaken with the aim of reconstructing the language spoken by the Inuit of Southern Labrador (the region stretching from Hamilton Inlet to the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence - see map) between 1694 and 1785. This period opens with an expedition by the explorer Louis Jolliet, marking the beginning of sustained contact between Inuit and European, and closes at the end of the eighteenth century, when, under pressure of Anglo-Saxon colonization, the Eskimos of Southern Labrador retreated north of Hamilton Inlet or adopted the language and culture of the newcomers.