GERALD PENNEY
EDUCATION
M.A., 1985 (Archaeology) Memorial University of Newfoundland
B.A., 1975 (Anthropology) Memorial University of Newfoundland
WORK
President, Gerald Penney Associates Limited
St. John's 1987-present
Co-ordinator Discovery Materials, Miawpukek Band, Conne River, 1987-1994; member Miawpukek Band Land Claims Committee 1989-present
Consulting and contractual archaeologist, self-employed, St. John's 1980-1987
Archaeological assistant and field project leader, Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's 1974-1980
TEACHING
Newfoundland Archaeology, YM-YWCA, St. John's 1988
Anthropology 2220 and 3210, Memorial University of Newfoundland Teacher
Education Program, Nain, Labrador 1986
MUSEUM
Artifact cataloguing and conservation program, Moravian Mission Museum,
Hopedale, Labrador 1988
Curator of Archaeology and Ethnology and acting Provincial Archaeologist,
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's 1986-1987
MEMBERSHIPS
Canadian Archaeological Association
The Hakluyt Society
The Champlain Society
The Canadian Association of
Professional Heritage Consultants
Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
PROJECT LIST
1998
Trans-Island Transmission Line for the Churchill River Hydro Development;
Transmission Line TL 220 Re-route for Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro;
and Two Quarry Sites in Northern Labrador for Labrador Inuit Development
Corporation.
1997
Drill and Camp Sites in Northern Labrador for Teck Exploration, MPH
Consulting, and NDT Ventures; and Forestry Surveys for Newfoundland Government
1996
Diamond Drilling Locations and Mineral Exploration Grids for Archean
Resources Limited and 15 Junior Mineral Exploration Companies.
1995
Diamond Drill Exploration Sites (77) in Northern Labrador for Absolut
Resources, Dentonia, Castle Rock, Cartaway Resources, Consolidated Magna
Resources, Gallery Resources, Columbia Yukon Resources and Reliance Geological
Services; Niatak Island Survey, Labrador, for Black Pine Consulting; and
Shapio Lake Survey, Labrador, for Noranda Exploration.
1993
Southside Castle Delineation Project, St. John's.
1992
Mainland to Cape St. George Connector Road; Conception Bay Bypass Road;
and Environmental Audits of 5 Airports.
1991
Goulds Bypass Road and Environmental Audits of Seven Airports.
1989
Prosser Rock Boat Basin; Berry Hill to Daniel's Harbour Transmission
Line; Long Pond Fluvarium and Service Corridor; Betts Cove Copper Mining
Exploration Area; Nugget Pond Gold Mining Exploration Area; and Conception
Bay North Access Highway.
1988
Leila Wynne Lake, Labrador, Dolomite Quarry; Croque Marble Quarry;
Cape Ray Mineral Exploration Area; Sunday Hill, Labrador, Gravel Quarry;
Cape Bonavista Radar Antenna Field; and George's Brook Access Road.
1987
Fogo to Change Islands Power Lines; Hope Brook Gold Mine to Grand Bruit
Power Line; Roddickton Generating Plant and Transmission Line; Paradise
River Hydroelectric Development; and Nut Cove Slate Quarry Access Road.
1986
Hope Brook Gold Mine Site; Burgeo Road to Hope Brook Transmission Line;
Bottom Brook to Burgeo Transmission Line; and Cartwright and Saglek Radar
Sites.
1985
Paradise River Hydro Development; Freshwater Bay Offshore Base Site;
Placentia Bay Environmental Impact Study; and
Labrador Tote Road.
1984
Cow Head/Spanish Room Oil Rig Repair Facility and Rattling Brook Transmission
Tower.
1982
Cat Arm Hydroelectric Development and Bay de Nord River System Heritage
Study.
1981
Upper Salmon Hydroelectric Development.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS
1994
Bay St. George
1993
Katalisk (Codroy Valley)
1990
Temagen Gospen (Middle Pond)
1988
Burnt Pond
1987
King George IV Lake
Island Pond
Green Bay and Western Notre Dame Bay
Grandy Brook and Northwest Arm (Grey River)
1986
White Bear Bay
Cinq Cerf Bay
PRESENTATIONS
1997
"TheBeothuk: Living under a long shadow" Cabot and his World Symposium,
St. John's
1995
"this strange, mysterious race"
Archaeology in Newfoundland to 1918", to 28th Canadian Archaeological
Association meetings, Kelowna
1994
"Taqmauk: a Micmac Homeland", to 27th Canadian Archaeological Association
meetings, Edmonton
1992
Presentation to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, St. John's
1991
Presentation to House of Commons, Ottawa, Standing Committee on events
at Oka
1990
"Betts Cove: a 19th century copper mine in Notre Dame Bay", to Newfoundland
Department of Mines convention, St. John's
1989
"Frank Speck and the Newfoundland Micmac", to 21st Algonquian Conference,
St. John's
1988
"Prosser Rock: a 17th century British harbour defence fortification",
to Newfoundland Historic Trust, St. John's
"W.E. Cormack's expedition across Newfoundland in 1822", to Newfoundland
and Labrador Amateur Archaeological Association, St. John's
1986
"The role of Micmac in the exploration of Newfoundland's interior",
to Newfoundland Museum, St. John's
1983
"Burnt Knaps: Two Micmac sites on Middle Ridge", to 16th Canadian Archaeological
Association meetings, Halifax
1981
"The L'Anse à Flamme site and the Little Passage complex", to
14th Canadian Archaeological Association, Edmonton
PUBLICATIONS
1999
"Mr. Hubbard's Body", Them Days, Vol. 24, No. 4, Happy Valley-Goose
Bay.
"The Beothuk: Living Under a Long Shadow", Cabot and His World Symposium:
Paper and presentations, St. John's.
1997
"An Ocean Going Canoe from Conne River", Newfoundland Quarterly,
XC (4), St. John's.
1996
"Archaeology and mineral exploration in northern Labrador", Newfoundland
and Labrador Mining Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2, March, St. John's.
1994
"Paul Emile Miot: 19th century photographer of Newfoundland", Newfoundland
Quarterly, LXXXVIII (4), St. John's.
1993
Editor, On the Country: the Micmac of Newfoundland. Harry Cuff
Publications Limited, St. John's.
"Port Union", Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, Vol.
4, St. John's.
1992
"Newfoundland Micmac Photographs", Newfoundland Quarterly, LXXXVII
(2), St. John's.
1991
"Five Micmac Photographs", Newfoundland Quarterly, LXXXV (3),
St. John's.
"Micmac", Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, Vol. 3,
St. John's.
1990
"Frank Speck and the Newfoundland Micmac", Proceedings of the 21st
Algonquian Conference, Ottawa.
1987
"Brevoort Island: Northwest Territories Archaeological Fieldwork in
1986", Archaeological Report Series, No. 3., Yellowknife.
"Archaeology in Newfoundland and Labrador - 1986", Canadian Archaeological
Association Newsletter, 7(1), Winnipeg.
1985
A prehistory of the southwest coast of Newfoundland, M.A. thesis,
Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's.
1984
"Burnt Knaps: a Micmac site in Newfoundland", Canadian Journal of
Archaeology, 8(1), Ottawa.
1983
"The Micmac cross at Bay de Nord", Newfoundland Quarterly, LXXIX
(1), St. John's.
1981
"A Point Peninsula rim sherd from L'Anse a Flamme, Newfoundland", Canadian
Journal of Archaeology, 5(1), Ottawa.