A portion of the Trans Canada Highway outside St. John's has been renamed the Highway of Heroes, featuring the Commonwealth's Poppy and our Forget-me-Not.
The Cape Shore Trail, between St. Bride's and Placentia...
And the secondary highway off the Cape Shore Trail to Ship Harbour, where Churchill and Roosevelt signed the Atlantic Accord during WWII. At least once a week I'm reminded of the line from Al Pittman's poem, "An island in the sky" - whether it's literally foggy, or even just the sky and sea blending together, suits us perfectly.
The buildings in the foreground are part of Fox Harbour, a town before Ship Harbour. The latter is actually along the coastline on the horizon on the upper right.
This one struck me because it broke what has until now been a rule for me on my road trips around the island: any of these little finger-highways that branch off of the trunk loop routes on every peninsula... generally they go somewhere impressive - a Bonavista or whatever. These secondary highways end in towns that were important enough to warrant building a highway after we joined Canada - so usually they have at least a few hundred people and lots of beautiful old buildings because they mattered in the 50s and 60s.
Ship Harbour, though... a half dozen bungalows. I wouldn't be convinced anyone even lived there before the 70s if not for the old graveyards around
. Definitely not worth the excursion to the end of the road, and that's the first time I can say that here.
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