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Historical Markers on the Avalon Peninsula Region

 
By Barry Swackhamer, June 22, 2014
Cape Spear Lighthouse Marker
1 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Blackhead — Cape Spear Lighthouse — Le Phare du Cap Spear —
2 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Blackhead — World War II Battery — Batterie del a IIième Guerre mondaile — Fort Cape Spear / Le fort du cap Spear —
3 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Brigus — Captain Robert Abram Bartlett — Le Capitaine Robert Abram Bartlett — 1875-1946 —
4 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Brigus — Hawthorne Cottage / Cottage Hawthorne —
5 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Brigus — The Brigus Tunnel —
6 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Carbonear — CN Railway Station — c1917-1918 —
7 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Carbonear — Former Carbonear Railway Station / L'Ancienne Gare de Carbonear —
8 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Ferryland — Colony of Avalon — La colonie d’Avalon — Sir David Kirke, c. 1597-1654 —
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9 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Ferryland — The French Attack Ferryland — Les Français attaquent Ferryland —
10 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Harbour Grace — Harbour Grace Court House / Palais de Justice D'Harbour Grace —
11 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Harbour Grace — Laurence Coughlan —
12 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Harbour Grace — Rothesay House, Munn/Godden Residence — Built 1855, reconstructed 1906 —
13 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Harbour Grace — Transatlantic Flights / Vols Transatlantiques — 1919-1937 —
14 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Harbour Grace, Harbour Grace South — Amelia Earhart —
15 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Harbour Grace, Harbour Grace South — Education & Confederation —
16 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Harbour Grace, Harbour Grace South — Otterbury Schoolhouse (Built circa 1884) / Preserving the Schoolhouse —
17 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Heart's Content — Western Union Operator's House — Built circa 1921 —
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18 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Placentia — (Fort Royal) — Outer Defences / Défenses avancées —
19 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Placentia — Castle Hill —
20 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Placentia — Castle Hill —
21 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Placentia — Fort Frederick —
22 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Placentia — Fort Royal (Plaisance) — le fort Royal —
23 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Placentia — Port Royal and Castle Graves / Port Royal et Castle Graves —
24 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — (Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Monument) —
25 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — 1892: The Great Fire — 1892: Le grand incendie —
26 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Bank of British North America — 1849 —
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27 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Battle of Signal Hill / La bataille de Signal Hill —
28 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Cabot Tower — La Tour Cabot —
29 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Fever Hospital — L’hôpital des maladies contagieuses —
30 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — First Transatlantic Wireless Signal —
31 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Fishery — Le pêche —
32 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Former Bank of British North America — L’ancienne Bank of North America —
33 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Former Newfoundland Railway Headquarters — L’ancien siège social du chemin de fer de Terre-Neuve —
34 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Gower Street United Church — Built 1894-1896 —
35 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Herbert J. Russell, C.B.E. —
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36 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Ice — Les Glaces —
37 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Mary Meager Southcott — (1862-1943) —
38 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Masonic Temple — 1894-1897 —
39 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Noon Day Gun — Canon de midi —
40 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — O’Dwyer Block — 1847 —
41 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Peacetime Use — Utilisation en temps de paix —
42 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Sir Robert Gillespie Reid —
43 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — St. John the Baptist Anglican Cathedral — Cathédrale Anglicane St. John the Baptist —
44 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — St. John’s Court House — Le Palais de justice de St. John’s —
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45 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Swiling — La chasse au phoque —
46 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Thompson Building — c 1847 —
47 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — Transatlantic Radio Signals — Le premier message radiotélégraphique transatlantique —
48 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's — William Carson — 1770-1843 —
49 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Central St. John's — Government House / Résidence Du Lieutenant-Gouverneur —
50 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Central St. John's — Harris Cottage — Built circa 1833 —
51 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Central St. John's — Rennie's Mill Road Historic District / Le District Historique de Rennie's Mill Road —
52 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Downtown — 28 Cochrane Street — Built circa 1893 —
53 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Downtown — 32 Queen's Road — c1854-1875 —
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54 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Downtown — Anderson House — Built circa 1804 —
55 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Downtown — Apothecary Hall — 1922 —
56 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Downtown — Bannerman House — 1840-1849 —
57 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Downtown — Fort Townshend —
58 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Downtown — Fort William / Le Fort William —
59 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Downtown — John Reeves — (1752-1829) —
60 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Downtown — Sir Humphrey Gilbert — ca. 1537-1583 —
61 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Downtown — The Newfoundland National War Memorial — Le Monument Commémoratif National de Guerre de Terre-Neuve —
62 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Quidi Vidi — Christ Church — Built 1842 —
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63 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Quidi Vidi — Christ Church —
64 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, Quidi Vidi — Mallard Cottage / La Maison Mallard —
65 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, St. John's, St John's — Anderson House — c1804-1805 —
66 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 1 - Avalon Peninsula-St. John's, Trepassey, Ferryland — Ferryland — Population 717 (1996) — Settled 1621 • Inc. 1971 —
67 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 6 - Central Nfld-Grand Falls-Windsor, Gander — Arrow Air Crash — The Silent Witness Memorial — Cross of Sacrifice —
 
 
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