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survivor died in captivity at St. Johns in 1829. One or two families 
may have escaped from the island and found asylum among the 
Montagnais of Labrador, for an old woman, discovered by Dr. Frank 
Sjieck in 1910 among the Micmae of Nova Scotia, claimed to be the 
half-breed daughter of a Leothuk refugee. But Nancy Shawanah- 
dit, the captive wlio died in 1829, was the last Red Indian ” ever 
seen by white men. and the year of her death marks tlie date of their 
extinction.^ 
VI I CM AC 
The Micmac (“Allies”), who united with the French and Eng- 
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A Mic'tiiac woman. ( l*lioto hy F'rank Speck.) 
lish settlers to exterminate the unhappy Beothuk Indians of New- 
foundland, occupied at the time of their discovery not only the whole 
province of Nova Scotia, including Cape Breton island, but the north- 
ern ]K)rtion of New Brunswick and the neighbouring ITince PFlward 
island. They were a tyjhcal migratory people who lived in the woods 
i Most, of what \v(‘ know aCnut Ihn Ri-ollnik will Iw foiinrl in Ilowloy, J. P. : “ Tlio Heothncks 
or Rod Indians, t.ho Ahorifiiiud [iihahdiiiits (jf Xewfoimdiand'’ ; Cainhridfio Univonsity Pross, 1915. 
