 From 1977 until the late 1980s he excavated the sixteenth century Basque whaling station at Red Bay Labrador.Starting in 1969 he led teams that excavated Inuit graves on Rose Island which is now in Torngat Mountains National Park.The remains of 113 Inuit – 100 from Rose Island and 13 from Upernavik Island were repatriated and reburied in 1995.