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Posts by: WantsToTravelMore
Cape Spear – as east as possible
If you are the type of traveller who is on business and flying in, hitting the hotel, doing the work, and then flying out, there’s a risk of missing the significance of the geography. Everywhere humans live is for a reason. Maybe not a good reason, but there’s a reason. Newfoundland was colonized by Europeans (and others) for the fish, not the weather. A lot of Canadians not living in the Atlantic provinces would have trouble answering this trivia question, “What is the eastern most point in North America?” 47 deg 31′ 25″52 deg 37′ 10″ Cape Spear! Many national […]
The Eastern Start (or End) of the Trans-Canada Highway
The January/February 2008 edition of Canadian Geographic magazine made mention that, despite the presence in St John’s of “Mile Zero” marker right beside the city hall, the true Mile 0 for the Trans Canada Highway was moved to a dump. In 2002 the highway by-passed St. John’s and now ends at Logy Bay Road, which is where the Robin Hood Bay Landfill is located. Apparently it has the best ocean view of a land fill in Canada. However, hikers should note that the site also is near Sugarloaf Path, which is a new part of the East Coast Trail. This […]
