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Friday, August 15, 2014

Terra Nova National Park

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  Activities at Terra Nova center around the water but there are also about a dozen trails. From the descriptions most look easy and at lea...
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North Atlantic Aviation Museum

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  In 1936, where the city of Gander stands today, there wasn’t a road or even a town, nothing but trees. So why was a large airport under c...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Cobb's Pond Rotary Park Trail

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  The trail circles around Cobb’s Pond with short spurs leading to views of the pond and a longer spur which travels a through a bog to ano...

Mary March Provincial Museum

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  Artifacts from ancient Maritime Archaic Indians, Palaeoeskimo, and Beothuk, and more recent Europeans and Mi’kmaqs , all who made central...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

L'Anse Aux Meadows National Historic Site

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  In 1960 Helge Marcus Ingstad , a Norwegian explorer, and his wife Anne Stine, an archaeologist, following clues from Norse sagas and wit...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Port au Choix National Historic Site

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  Excavations begun in 1967 uncovered evidence of four different cultural groups who lived along the coast, fishing and hunting sea animals...
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Nurse Bennett Heritage House

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   Myra Bennett worked as a nurse in England for ten years before agreeing to serve in Newfoundland for two years. She was sent to a small ...

Arches Provincial Park

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  This mound of conglomerate rock gets pounded by ocean waves which have carved arches along the base.   A paved path leads to a viewpoin...

Dr. Henry N. Payne Museum and Craft Shop

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  This little museum consists of small house furnished as it would have been in the 1940s with one room serving as a gift shop.   The fir...

Trout River Boardwalk

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  Trout River is a small fishing community at the end of the road in Gros Morne Park . A short boardwalk follows the shoreline through town...