Heart's Content Cable Station Provincial Historic Site
Highway 80, Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1
1/2 hours from St. John's. How to get here.
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What can I do here?
- Meet the outport men and women whose destinies opened to the
world by working at the station in the 1800s
- Tour the replica 1870s cable office
- Step back into a pre-microchip era of vaccuum tubes and brass
switches in the 1960s-era communications room
- Watch a 20-minute film about the effort to lay the
transatlantic cable in the 1860s
- Walk along the beach to see the remnants of the cable that was
once the only connection between Europe and North America
- Buy a souvenir at the gift shop
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