The Victoria Community Development Corporation
Learning Vacations

Learning is a life long and enjoyable experience.

Learning Vacations are trips where travel and learning is just for the fun of it. Travelers, in groups of 15 - 25 participants, explore a wide variety of topics such as the history of their own city; modern art in Paris or New York; too remote tribes in Tibet or on the Amazon River. The cost is always reasonable, with the choice of program and experience up to the participant.

Elderhostel

Elderhostel is the largest Learning Vacations organization in the world. For over 30 years, tjos Bpstpm based, nonprofit organization has offered programs to interested individuals. Programs can vary in type and length. Some of the program selection offered are:

Traditional five night, six day courses based in one location.
Travel Learn Vacations with courses that cover a number of sites over ten days.
Cruise programs that can take travelers to inland waterways or between continents.
Inter-generational trips where grandparents and grandchildren go together.

The Victoria Community Development Corporation (VCDC), through Conception Bay Adventures (CBA), is the Elderhostel Representative on the Avalon Peninsula.

From June 20 to June 26 and September 9 to September 15, 2006, the Victoria Community Development Corporation (VCDC), through Conception Bay Adventures (CBA) will be sponsoring an Elderhostel program: History and Culture of Newfoundland's Seaside Comunities.

For further information, click below:

Elderhostel Program 2006 - History and Culture of Newfoundland's Seaside Communities.

The towns visited are the sites of the earliest English settlement in Carnada. A detailed 17th centruy hisory of the Cupids, Brigus, Harbour Grace, Carbonear, Heart's Content, and Winterton can be found here:

Baccalieu: Crossroads for Cultures

Pictures from previous History and Culture of Newfoundland's Seaside Communities (Captions include links to Internet sites with further information)

Hotel Harbour Grace	Hotel Harbour Grace - Lobby	Hotel Harbour Grace- Dining Room
Hotel Harbour Grace - Typical Room	Hotel Harbour Grace - Typical Room	Hotel Harbour Grace is located on Water Street in the middle of the Harbour Grace Heritage District.
Brigus Harbourand Early History	Hawthorne Cottage, National Historic Site, Brigus	Cupids Museum and 17th Century History
Cupids Museum	Cupids Archaeological Site - First English Settlement in Canada - 1610	Lunch at Skipper Ben's, Cupids
Spirit of Harbour Grace and Early History	Role of Harbour Grace in Transatlantic Flight	The Kyle - Harobur Grace
Rorke Store - Registered Heritage Structure and 17th Century History	Railway Station Museum	Lunch at Fong's Restaurant
Boat Building - Heart's Content 17th Century History	Heart's Content Cab;e Station - Provincial Historic Site	Heart's Content - Guide
Newfoundland "Time" - Heart's Contnet	Society of United Fishermen - Heart's Content	Walk in Heart's Content
Winterton Boatbuilding Museum and Early History	Winterton Boatbuilding Museum	St. John's Harbour from Signal Hill
Guide on Signal Hill	Cabot Towner	The Rooms
Cabot Tower from the Rooms	Grand Concourse	Cape Spear - the Closest Point in North America to Europe
St. John's Harbour from the Rooms

 

Click below for elderhostel programs that previously have been offered on the Baccalieu Trail:

Previous Programs