Insight Guides Explore Maritimes & Newfoundland (Travel Guide eBook)

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Insight Guides Explore Maritimes and Newfoundland

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Focused travel guide featuring the very best routes and itineraries.

Discover the best of Maritimes and Newfoundland with this unique travel guide, packed full of insider information and stunning images. From making sure you don't miss out on must-see, top attractions like the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax, Johnson Geo Centre in St John's or Cape Spear Lighthouse in the Avalon Peninsula, to discovering cultural gems, including munching our way around the Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market, hiking the rugged trails of Gros Morne National Park or taking in the multi-coloured mansions of Lunenburg in Nova Scotia, the easy-to-follow, ready-made walking routes will save you time, and help you plan and enhance your visit to Maritimes and Newfoundland.

Features of this travel guide to Maritimes and Newfoundland:
- 15 walks and tours: detailed itineraries feature all the best places to visit, including where to eat and drink along the way
- Local highlights: discover the area's top attractions and unique sights, and be inspired by stunning imagery
- Historical and cultural insights: immerse yourself in Maritimes and Newfoundland's rich history and culture, and learn all about its people, art and traditions
- Insider recommendations: discover the best hotels, restaurants and nightlife using our comprehensive listings
- Practical full-colour maps: with every major sight and listing highlighted, the full-colour maps make on-the-ground navigation easy
- Covers: St John's Walk, The Irish Loop, The Baccalieu Trail, The Bonavista Peninsula, The Kittiwake Coast, Gros Morne National Park, Viking Trail, Trans-Labrador Highway, Halifax Walk, Cape Breton Island: The Cabot Trail, South Shore and the Annapolis Valley, Charlottetown Walk, Pei Road-Trip, Saint John Walk, The Fundy Coastal Drive.

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About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Insight Guides
• Release date: Nov 2, 2021
• ISBN: 9781839053078

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How To Use This E-Book

This Explore Guide has been produced by the editors of Insight Guides, whose books have set the standard for visual travel guides since 1970. With ­top-­quality photography and authoritative recommendations, these guidebooks bring you the very best routes and itineraries in the world’s most exciting destinations.

Best Routes

The routes in this book provide something to suit all budgets, tastes and trip lengths. As well as covering the destination’s many classic attractions, the itineraries track lesser-known sights. The routes embrace a range of interests, so whether you are an art fan, a gourmet, a history buff or have kids to entertain, you will find an option to suit.

We recommend reading the whole of a route before setting out. This should help you to familiarise yourself with it and enable you to plan where to stop for refreshments – options are shown in the ‘Food and Drink’ box at the end of each tour.

Introduction

The routes are set in context by this introductory section, giving an overview of the destination to set the scene, plus background information on food and drink, shopping and more.

Directory

Also supporting the routes is a Directory chapter, with our pick of where to stay while you are there and select restaurant listings; these eateries complement the more low-key cafés and restaurants that feature within the routes and are intended to offer a wider choice for evening dining. Also included here are some nightlife listings and our recommendations for books and films about the destination.

Getting around the e-book

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights mentioned in the text are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of the destination. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

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Table of Contents

Recommended Routes For...

Art Lovers

Children

Foodies

History Buffs

Literary Types

Music Lovers

Nature Lovers

Top Architecture

Explore Maritimes & Newfoundland

Geography and layout

History

Climate

Population

Local customs

Politics and economics

Food and drink

Local cuisine

Newfoundland and Labrador

Prince Edward Island

Nova Scotia

New Brunswick and Acadian cuisine

Where to eat

Pubs

Fish and Chip shops

Lobster shacks and suppers

Chain restaurants

Food hall and markets

Drinks

Beer

Spirits

Wine

Entertainment

Pubs

Live music

Theatre

Local theatre/cultural performance

Outdoor Activities

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

Hiking

Long-distance hiking trails

Cycling

Water sports and activities

Canoeing and Kayaking

Whale-watching

Spectator sports

St John’s Walk/A Stroll Around St John’s

Water street

Anglican cathedral of st john the baptist

Basilica-cathedral of st john the baptist

The rooms

Commissariat house provincial historic site

Signal hill national historic site

Johnson Geo Centre

Signal Hill Visitor Centre

Cabot Tower

The Irish Loop

Cape spear

Bay bulls and witless bay

On to ferryland

Ferryland

Lighthouse Picnics

Mistaken point ecological reserve

Cape Race

Trepassey

Salmonier line

The Baccalieu Trail

Brigus

Cupids

Harbour grace

Salmon cove

Grates cove and around

Winterton

Heart’s content

Dildo

The Bonavista Peninsula

Trinity and around

Trinity Provincial Historic Sites

Trinity Historical Society sites

New Bonaventure

Skerwink Trail

Cape bonavista and around

Bonavista

Dungeon Provincial Park

Cape Bonavista

The Kittiwake Coast

Newtown

Lumsden

Fogo island

Tilting

Joe Batt’s Point

Fogo

Boyd’s cove

Twillingate

Twillingate Museum

Long Point Lighthouse

Auk Island Winery

Gros Morne National Park

Discovery centre

The tablelands

Trout river

Woody point

Norris point

Bonne Bay Marine Station

Rocky harbour

Lobster cove head lighthouse

Western brook pond

Broom point

Cow head

Viking Trail

Deer lake to port au choix

Port au Choix

St anthony

Grenfell Historic Properties

Dark Tickle Company

L’anse aux meadows national historic site

Norstead

Trans-Labrador Highway

The labrador straits

Point Amour

L’Anse-au-Loup

Red Bay

Mary’s harbour

Battle harbour

Port hope simpson

Happy valley-goose bay

Halifax Walk

Halifax citadel national historic site

Grand parade

Art gallery of nova scotia

Halifax harbourfront

Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

HMCS Sackville

Discovery Centre

Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

Cape Breton Island:The Cabot Trail

La région acadienne

Chéticamp

Cape breton highlands national park

Pleasant Bay

Lone Shieling

Bay st lawrence

Neil’s harbour

Ingonish

The gaelic coast

Baddeck

Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site

South Shore and the Annapolis Valley

Peggy’s cove

deGarthe Gallery

Peggy’s Point Lighthouse

Lunenburg

Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic

Knaut-Rhuland House Museum

Historic Lunenburg

Ironworks Distillery

Kejimkujik national park and national historic site

Visitors Centre and Jake’s Landing

Annapolis royal

Fort Anne National Historic Site

Annapolis Heritage Society properties

Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens

Port-royal national historic site

Charlottetown Walk

Province House National Historic Site

Confederation Centre of the Arts

Anne Of Green Gables: The Musical

Victoria row

St dunstan’s catholic basilica

Founders’ hall and peake’s wharf

Beaconsfield house

Government house

PEI Road-trip

Argyle shore provincial park

Victoria

Prince edward island national park

Dunes Studio Gallery and Café

Cavendish

Avonlea Village

New glasgow

Lucy maud montgomery birthplace

La région évangéline

West point

A Stroll Around Saint John

Trinity royal historic preservation area

Market slip

New brunswick museum

King’s square

City market

Loyalist house

Reversing falls rapids

The Fundy Coastal Drive

St martins

Fundy trail parkway

Fundy national park

Alma

Cape enrage

Hopewell rocks

Accommodation

Newfoundland: St John’s

Newfoundland: The Irish Loop

Newfoundland: The Baccalieu Trail

Newfoundland: Bonavista Peninsula

Newfoundland: Kittiwake Coast

Newfoundland: Gros Morne National Park

Newfoundland: Viking Trail

Labrador: Trans-Labrador Highway

Nova Scotia: Halifax

Nova Scotia: Cape Breton Island

Nova Scotia: South Shore and the Annapolis Valley

PEI: Charlottetown

PEI

New Brunswick: Saint John

New Brunswick: Fundy Coastal Drive

Restaurants

Newfoundland: St John’s

Newfoundland

Labrador: Trans-Labrador Highway

Nova Scotia: Halifax

Nova Scotia: Cape Breton Island

Nova Scotia: South Shore and the Annapolis Valley

PEI: Charlottetown

PEI

New Brunswick: Saint John

New Brunswick: Fundy Coastal Drive

Nightlife

Bars and taprooms

Live music venues

Theatre

Books and Film

Books

Fiction (inc poems and plays)

Non-fiction

Film and tv

COVID-19 Updates

While travelling in Canada, be sure to heed all local laws, travel advice and hygiene measures. While we’ve done all we can to make sure this guide is accurate and up to date, be sure to check ahead.

Recommended Routes For...

ART LOVERS

Artistic highlights in this region include the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax (route 9) and the Rooms in St John’s (route 1), both of which holds collections of fine art.

Discover Halifax

CHILDREN

Go whale spotting in Twillingate (route 5) or St Anthony (route 7) in Newfoundland, or get educated at the Johnson Geo Centre in St John’s (route 1), or the Discovery Centre in Halifax (route 9). Enjoy a day at the beach on Prince Edward Island (both route 13).

Discover Halifax

FOODIES

Munch your way around Atlantic Canada at the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market (route 1), or City Market in Saint John (route 14). Sample some of the world’s best lobster on PEI (route 13), in New Brunswick (route 15), and Cape Breton Island (route 10).

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HISTORY BUFFS

Cupids in Newfoundland & Labrador was the site of Canada’s first English settlement in 1610 (route 3); Ferryland followed in 1621 (route 2). Long before the English, the Beothuks roamed Newfoundland (route 5), and the Vikings visited L’Anse aux Meadows (route 7).

Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism

LITERARY TYPES

See the landscapes that inspired Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News in Trinity, Newfoundland, and Bernice Morgan’s Random Passage (both route 4). L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables fans are in for a treat in PEI (route 13).

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MUSIC LOVERS

The pubs of St John’s, Newfoundland hum with live folk music (route 1), as does much of Cape Breton Island (route 10) and Halifax (route 9). Hear traditional Acadian sounds in La Région Évangéline (route 13).

Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism

NATURE LOVERS

Go whale-watching off Bay Bulls (route 2), Twillingate (route 5) or Cape Breton (route 10), or hike the rugged trails of Gros Morne National Park (route 6) and Cape Breton Highlands (route 10). Kayak or canoe the waterways of Kejimkujik National Park (route 11) or the coast of PEI (route 13).

Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism

TOP ARCHITECTURE

The multi-coloured mansions of Lunenburg in Nova Scotia (route 11) are known for the distinctive Lunenburg Bump, while the grand buildings in Saint John, New Brunswick were built after the great fire of 1877 (route 14).

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Explore Maritimes & Newfoundland

Medieval Bruges is one of Europe’s most romantic destinations. Canals meander around gabled almshouses, Gothic churches, world-class art galleries and boutique hotels, all packaged in a central district less than 2km (1.25 miles) across.

Atlantic Canada is perhaps one of the most startlingly beautiful regions of Canada. Here are the achingly lonely beaches of Nova Scotia, the distinctive sense of humour and charming friendliness of the people of Newfoundland and Labrador, the old-world, Prince Edward Island farmers, and the graceful elegance of New Brunswick’s towns. The French and British fought over the three Maritime provinces for almost two hundred years, and today the French-speaking Acadian population remains culturally distinct. After the American Revolution, Loyalists flooded Atlantic Canada, adding another cultural layer. Newfoundland and Labrador’s early history was dominated by the seasonal cod, whale and seal fisheries, with year-round outports eventually settled by hardy English and Irish fishermen giving the province much of its character today.

Dramatic coastline, Green Gardens, Gros Morne National Park

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Covid-19 Updates

In early 2020, Covid-19 swept across the globe, being categorized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. While travelling in Canada, be sure to heed all local laws, travel advice and hygiene measures; flouting these means risking your own health but can also put a strain on local communities and their medical infrastructure. While we've done all we can to make sure this guide is accurate and up to date, permanent closures and changed opening hours are likely in the wake of coronavirus, so be sure to check ahead.

Geography and Layout

The area covered in this book is vast, some half a million square kilometres, much of it isolated wilderness fronting Canada’s eastern Atlantic coast. The ocean, and especially the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of St Lawrence, dominates life here, with the port of Halifax in Nova Scotia the region’s biggest city. The tours in this book begin with the port of St John’s, then proceed geographically across Newfoundland and Labrador from east to west, taking in the most popular and attraction-rich areas of the province. The focus then shifts to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and finally New Brunswick.

Boats docked at fishing village near Cavendish, Prince Edward Island

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You’ll need a car to make the most out of the area, as public transport is limited to a handful of long-distance bus lines and railway routes. Most cities are small enough to explore on foot, though local taxis are usually easy to find.

History

It is thought Vikings visited the region, calling it ‘Vinland’, in around AD 1000, though they didn’t stay long and had little impact – the Beothuk and Mi’kmaq peoples who had lived here for centuries were only displaced by later waves of