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VCDC

Community of Victoria

Learning Resources

Day Tours
Lesson Plans
and
Resources

Walking and
Hiking Trails
Plans and
Resources

 

Learning Vacations
Day Tours
 

Day Tours Lesson Plans and Resources


Overview

1. Heart's Content Cable Station ------ First successful trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable landing.

2. Conception Bay North Museum ---- Pirate Peter Eston, Amelia Earhart, Fishing & Sealing.

3. Cupids Museum & Archeological Site - First official English settlement in Canada 1610.

4. Victoria Heritage Sawmill ---------- Newfoundland's only full size water wheel driven sawmill.

5. Carbonear Railway Station Museum – Foreign going sailing Captains in 19th & 20 th century.

6. Hawthorne Cottage-National Historic Site - former home of Arctic Explorer Capt. Bob Bartlett

7. Dildo Interpretation Center - 5000 years of settlement, whaling, fishing, sealing, cod hatchery.

8. Bay Roberts Cable Building - Museum of town as mercantile centre, WWII communications.

9. Winterton Boat Building Museum - demonstration of how in shore fishing boats were made.

10. Bay De Verd Heritage House and Baccalieu Island Exhibit - Typical home of outport fishing merchant. One of the largest seabird colonies in North America.