By the mid-nineteenth century they had completely disappeared. The last Beothuk, a woman named Shawnadithit, died of tuberculosis in 1829.

The Beothuk were worried that Buchan was going ... to determine the size of the men who had put up such a fight. The woman, named Mary March, was captured. By the summer she was dying and Captain ...

The Gosling statue will be the second of a historical woman to be erected in the City of St. John’s. The first was Demasduit, a Beothuk woman (and her husband Nonosabasut, and infant son ...