Good work, but I postulate a different cause for the Beothuk extinction. First o all, one has to accept that any native population would inhabit the area with the best resources and living conditions. That would be the St Georges Bay area in the SW NL. It is definitely the banana belt of NL and had 7 or 8 rivers that would have had bountiful supplies of salmon. Also lots of clams and mussels etc. Plus that, is well wooded with access to wildlife. The Micmac from Cape Breton had been crossing the Cabot Straight to hunt for centuries. With the advent of the French at Louisburg the Micmac had guns to hunt with. (Cormac in his trip across NL in about 1810 found a Micmac family living in the Western Interior.)My theory is that The NS Micmac hunters drove the Beothuk inland or worse and by using the Exploits River for conveyance they met up with the colonists from Notre Dame Bay in the Northeast. Micmac decendents now populate the area from the Fischels River to St Georges