Heritage Resource Directory - Historic Sites and Organizations | Museum Association of Newfoundland & Labrador

Boyd's Cove Beothuk Interpretation Centre Provincial Historic Site

Follow the 1.5 km groomed walking trail that links the interpretation centre with the living site. Catch a glimpse of "The Spirit of the Beothuk", a bronze statue designed by renowned artist Gerald Squires.

Facilities and Services include:

* Guided tours are available along 1.5 km's of walking trail

* The building is completely wheelchair accessible.

* Gift shop on site.

* Parking for motorcoaches, R/Vs and other vehicles.

Contact during season:

Karen LeDrew Day

Off Highway 340

Boyd's Cove, NL

Ph. (709) 656-3114

Email: boydscove@nf.aibn.com

Postal Address:

P.O. Box 8700

St. John’s, NL

Canada

A1B 4J6

Cape Bonavista Lighthouse Provincial Historic Site

Experience the power of the North Atlantic crashing against the rocks. See icebergs, whales and puffins, in their seasons, as they congregate just off the Cape. And there, where it's been since 1843, stands the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse.

Facilities and Services:

* Guided tours are available.

* There's motorcoach parking near the site.

* There's a craft shop on site.

Contact during season:

Don Johnson

Highway 230

Bonavista, NL

Ph. (709) 468-7444; Fax (709) 468-5426

Email: capebonavista@nf.aibn.com

Postal Address:

P.O. Box 8700

St. John’s, NL

Canada

A1B 4J6

Colonial Building Provincial Historic Site

Built between 1847 and 1850, the Colonial Building stood as the centre and the principal focus of political activity in the province from 1850 to 1959. 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. As part of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador’s plan to preserve and enhance the site a Management Plan has been finalized which lays the groundwork for the future development of the building and grounds. Once completed the site will become the centre of interpretation for the province’s political history and a central attraction for residents and tourists alike.

Contact: Linda Badcock, Historic Sites Officer

Telephone: (709) 729-0592

Fax: (709) 729-7989

Email: tourisminfo@gov.nl.ca

Toll Free: 1-800-563-6353

The Commissariat House Provincial Historic Site

Just how does an army march on its stomach? Find out when you visit one of the oldest buildings in the province, built especially by the Commissariat to supply the city’s garrison.

Ask the clerks and serving maids of the 1830s what was involved in keeping the men supplied with everything from bread to boots. Wander through offices which look like something out of Dickens and the private apartment of the Assistant Commissary General where Jane Austen would probably have felt right at home. A newly developed exhibit in the stable on site tells you how it all came about.

Facilities and Services:

* Guided tours are available.

* Motorcoach parking is adjacent to building.

* Close to major hotels, restaurants, shopping and the waterfront.

Contact during season:

Lynda Keefe

King’s Bridge Road, St. John’s

(709) 729-6730

Facsimile: (709) 729-6745

Email: commissariat@nf.aibn.com

Postal Address:

P.O. Box 8700

St. John’s, NL

Canada

A1B 4J6

Heart's Content Cable Station Provincial Historic Site

Experience a time when information could travel from Europe to North America no faster than the ship that carried it. Learn what a difference it made when the transatlantic telegraph cable transferred that information almost instantaneously. Visit this site in Heart's Content where the cable was landed in 1866 and where global communications took a giant leap into the future. Tour exhibits that include a replica 1870s cable office and displays that tell about the laying of the cable and the history of communications. Watch a twenty-minute film that tells how this amazing feat was accomplished.

Facilities and Services:

* Guided tours are available

* There's a gift shop in the building.

* Motorcoach parking available on site.

Contact during season:

Bob Balsom

Heart's Content Cable Station,

Highway 80, Heart's Content, NL

Ph. (709) 583-2160

Fax: (709) 583-2373

Email: heartscontent@nf.aibn.com

Postal Address:

P.O. Box 8700

St. John’s, NL

Canada

A1B 4J6

Hiscock House Provincial Historic Site

Stroll through the streets of Trinity where time has stood still. Learn how feisty Emma Hiscock didn't let widowhood stand in her way when she needed to support her family. Look back to a time when the kitchen was the heart of the home and "the devil made work for idle hands." n this house, which remained in the same family until it was restored during the 1980s, you can now see how people lived back in 1910.

Facilities and Services:

* Guided tours are available

* You'll probably see someone in period clothing doing period activities.

* Other heritage facilities and dramatic presentations available in the community.

* There's a gift shop at the Hiscock House.

* Motorcoach parking available near site.

* Restaurants and gift shops are located throughout the community

* Located close to the locally operated Lester Garland House, Green Family Forge and Trinity Museum.

Contact during season:

Joan Kane

Hiscock House, Church Road, Trinity

Ph. (709) 464-2042

Facsimile: (709) 464-2349

Email: trinity@nf.aibn.com

Postal Address:

P.O. Box 8700

St. John’s, NL

Canada

A1B 4J6

Lester-Garland Premises Provincial Historic Site

Stroll through the streets of Trinity where time has stood still. This town wasn't always the peaceful period piece you see today. In the 18th century it was a bustling, thriving seaport, with shipbuilding, the fishery, importing and exporting all taking place. The Lesters, the Garlands, and the Ryans all had huge family businesses in this location. Today, only one mercantile building remains of the former empire. Wander over to the 1820s counting house and the early 20th century Ryan Shop in this mercantile building. Ask the staff how Mr. Lester's clerks wrote with quill pens, or how the Ryans weighed out dried beans.

Facilities and Services:

* Guided tours are available

* Other heritage facilities and dramatic presentations available in the community.

* Have your picture taken in old-style clothes.

* Motorcoach parking available near site.

* Public washrooms are located at the Trinity Interpretation Centre.

* Restaurants and gift shops are located throughout the community

* Located close to the locally operated Lester Garland House, Green Family Forge and Trinity Museum.

Contact during season:

Joan Kane

Lester-Garland Premises, West Street, Trinity

Ph. (709) 464-2042

Fax: (709) 464-2349

Email: trinity@nf.aibn.com

Postal Address:

P.O. Box 8700

St. John’s, NL

Canada

A1B 4J6

Mockbeggar Plantation Provincial Historic Site

Did you know that Newfoundland didn't join Canada until 1949? Join us at the Mockbeggar Plantation, the ideal place to find out how it all came about. Follow guides in period costumes through this 1870s house that's been restored to the Bradley period of 1939.See outbuildings that range from a large fish store built in the early 18th century, to a carpentry shop, to a cod-liver-oil factory!

Facilities and Services:

* Guided tours are available.

* Motorcoaches can park on site.

* Conveniently close to the Ryan Premises and the Matthew Replica.

Contact during season:

Amanda Abbott

Roper Street

Bonavista, NF

Ph. (709) 468-7300

Fax: (709) 468-5426

Email: mockbeggar@nf.aibn.com

Postal Address:

P.O. Box 8700

St. John’s, NL

Canada

A1B 4J6

Newman Wine Vaults Provincial Historic Site

According to legend, in 1679 a Newman and Company vessel loaded with port wine left Portugal for London but was driven off course and came to pass the winter in St. John’s. When the ship returned to England the following spring her cargo was found to have improved in flavour. From then until 1996 Newman’s Celebrated Ruby Port was aged in Newfoundland - much of it in the romantic stone vaults on Water Street. Newfoundland and Labrador’s only historic wine vaults offer visitors an interpretation of the province’s remarkable association with port, along with a variety of programmed events. In addition to being open daily during the summer, throughout the year one can attend special events such as concerts, readings, and wine tastings.

Facilities and Services:

* Guided tours are available.

* Gift shop with liquor agency store specializing in port and other fortified wine on site.

* Close to other historic attractions, major hotels, restaurants, shopping and the waterfront.

Available for private functions.

Contact during season:

Manager

436 Water Street, St. John’s

Ph. (709) 739-7870

Fax: (709) 739-5413

Email: historictrust@yahoo.ca

Postal Address:

Newfoundland Historic Trust,

P.O. Box 2403

St. John’s, NL

Canada

A1C 6E7

Point Amour Provincial Historic Site

This tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada is still a functioning lightstation. Climb the 109 foot tower - only the last two flights are ladders! See the wonderful view and sometimes, even icebergs and whales. Tour the former lightkeeper’s dwelling with its restored rooms and its displays on lighthouse technology, shipwrecks and the people of the Labrador Straits. Meet the interpreters in period costumes who will guide you through the story of the lighthouse and other compelling chapters in the history of this part of southern Labrador.

Facilities and Services:

* Guided tours are available

* Gift shop as part of the complex.

* Motorcoach parking available on site.

* Interpretive walking trails along the coastline

Contact during season:

Site Supervisor

L’ Anse Amour Road, Labrador

Off Highway 510

Ph. (709) 927-5825 or 927-5826

Fax: (709) 927-5833

Postal Address:

P.O. Box 8700

St. John’s, NL

Canada

A1B 4J6

Quidi Vidi Battery Provincial Historic Site

Explore this small coastal battery which has been reconstructed to the time when it was built to ward off a possible American attack during the War of 1812-14. Learn all about the historic military presence in the St. John’s area. See how soldiers and their families would have lived in this isolated spot on the edge of the North Atlantic around 1812.In the early summer you can see icebergs and whales from the ramparts.

Facilities and Services:

* Guided tours are available.

* There’s motorcoach parking near the site.

* It’s just 5 minutes from Signal Hill and the historic fishing village of Quidi Vidi.

* The site is conveniently close to major hotels, restaurants and the waterfront.

There are no washroom facilities at this site.

Contact during season:

Andrea van Nostrand or Lynda Keefe

Cuckhold’s Cove Road, St. John’s

(709) 729-2977

Facsimile: (709) 729-6745

Email: quidividi@nf.aibn.com

Postal Address:

P.O. Box 8700

St. John’s, NL

Canada

A1B 4J6

Trinity Interpretation Centre Provincial Historic Site

Stroll through the streets of Trinity where time has stood still. Find out how this town has gone from an 18th century mercantile centre to today’s beautiful period piece by visiting the Interpretation Centre in a heritage house.

Facilities and Services:

* Other heritage facilities and dramatic presentations available in the community.

* Motorcoach parking available near site.

* Public washrooms are located at the Trinity Interpretation Centre.

* Restaurants and gift shops are located throughout the community

* Located close to the locally operated Lester Garland House, Green Family Forge and Trinity Museum.

Contact during season:

Joan Kane

Trinity Interpretation Centre, West Street, Trinity

Ph. (709) 464-2042

Fax: (709) 464-2349

Email: trinity@nf.aibn.com