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St. John's
Quidi Vidi Battery
From gunfire to gardening, interpreters recreate the day-to-day lives of soldiers posted to this gun battery on the edge of the Atlantic in the early 1800s.
Commissariat House
A provocative, multi-media experience of 1830s St. John's set in a Georgian house. British naval government is ending and the newspapers, pulpits and pubs of St. John's are ablaze with talk of new government, and who will hold the reigns of power.
Colonial Building
THIS SITE CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS...As the former seat of the Colonial Government, the meeting place of the National Assembly, and the original House of Assembly for the province after 1949, the building is one of the most historically important buildings in the province.
Newman Wine Vaults
What do Portugal and Newfoundland have in common? Come and find out at the province's only historic wine vaults... an amazing 300-year-old story of ships, sails, wine and pirates.
Avalon
Cupids Cove Plantation
It's 1610. John Guy and his colonists have stepped ashore in Newfoundland and are beginning to set down roots... Come and see what archeologists this summer are discovering about these colonists - Canada's first English settlers.
Heart's Content Cable Station
1866...the world cheers as the first cable connecting Europe to North America is hauled ashore at Heart's Content. Experience how this little town became a global communications hub.
Eastern
Trinity Historic Sites
Trinity is one of the best preserved historic communities in Newfoundland and Labrador. With seven historic sites and other cultural activities besides, plan to spend a least a day wandering Trinity's laneways.
Cape Bonavista Lighthouse
Imagine what it was like to live on this rugged point of land when the light in the tower meant the difference between life and death to Newfoundland seafarers.
Mockbeggar Plantation
The former residence of politician and Confederation advocate F. Gordon Bradley. Experience life in Newfoundland in the 1930s and 1940s, when the issue of whether to join Canada or remain an independent nation was on everyone's lips.
Central
Beothuk Interpretation Centre
300 years ago, Beothuk people thrived on the resources of the land and sea all around the Bay of Exploits. Tour the interpretation centre where exhibits and artifacts foster an appreciation for this unique, and now vanished culture.
Labrador
Point Amour Lighthouse
Climb to the top of the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada - it's just the beginning of a site experience that includes a coastal hike to the wreck of the HMS Raleigh.
