Things To Do - Provincial Historic Sites

Trinity Visitor Centre : Mercantile Premises : Hiscock House

Trinity, off Highway 230 on the Bonavista Peninsula, approximately 3 hours from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. How to get here.

Pick up a map and get your bearings at the Trinity Visitor Centre. Purchase tickets to the Trinity Experience - seven historic sites all around town.
At the 1800s counting house in the Mercantile Premises, imagine being a bookeeper counting up a merchant's fortune. Talk to interpreters about life in a bustling seaport in the age of sail and salt fish.
At Hiscock House, step back to 1910, and see life through the eyes of Emma Hiscock. Widowed with six children, she managed to maintain a genteel life through hard work and entrepreneurship.
At Lester-Garland House, see how Trinity's most famous merchant family transported English upper class life to 1800s Newfoundland.
At the Cooperage, see the trade of barrel-making brought back to life.
At the Trinity Museum, get a sense of the trades that once made Trinity the place to go for everything from shipbuilding to shoemaking.
At the Green Family Forge, talk to the working blacksmith and see what he's making today.