Knox: Also, an interesting tidbit about St. John's to make your head hurt...
Culturally, Newfoundlanders don't think in cardinal points. If you ask someone for directions, the response will NEVER include the words north, south, east, or west. We just don't think that way. We say up/down (up meaning away from downtown, down meaning, literally, downhill toward downtown), left/right for which way you turn, and we give distance in time.
So, where a Winnipegger might say: "It's just 10 miles from here. You have to continue west on Main Street, then turn north on Berry Street, and then you should see it."
A Townie would say, "It's about 15 minutes away. Keep going up Main and turn right on Berry."
But, now to my real point...
The only time we use cardinal points commonly is in describing the West End and East End of St. John's. The catch is we pretend the harbour of St. John's and our downtown runs east-west, when in reality it runs much closer to north-south.
So we end up with this:
You can literally leave the West End, drive northwest, and finish in the East End.