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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HZ0_peacetime-use_St.-Johns-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
Caption, top, left (English / French): The importance of Signal Hill to St. John's goes beyond its guns, signal masts and hospitals. Poet, songwriters and artists alike have celebrated the Hill's timeless strength. It has become a proud symbol of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HYZ_former-bank-of-british-north-america_St.-Johns-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
English
This Italianate style building recalls evolution of banking in Newfoundland, Designed by Halifax architect David Stirling for the Bank of British North America, it opened in 1850 at a time when British investors controlled banking in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HWL_fishery_St.-Johns-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
Captions, clockwise from the top right. (English / French):
St. John's is both a fishing port and a supply base for the fleets of many countries. / Saint- Jean est à la fois un part de pêche et un centre d'approvisionnement pour les flottes de …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HWK_swiling_St.-Johns-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
Captions, clockwise from the top right. (English / French):
Processing seal pelts, St. John's around 1900. / Transformation des peaux de phoques, Saint-Jean vers 1900.
From 1793 to the early 1980's, the departure of sealing ships from St. Jo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HWF_fort-royal_Freshwater-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
English
Gaillardin Redoubt
Built originally of logs and subsequently of drywall masonry, this small enclosure surrounded by a breastwork was intended to keep an enemy from taking possession of Gaillardia Mountain, which overlooked Fort Louis and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HWE_cabot-tower_St.-Johns-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
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The Cabot Tower's cornerstone was laid on 23 June 1897 to mark the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's North American Landfall and the 60th year of Queen Victoria's reign. The building was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HW5_fever-hospital_St.-Johns-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
English
Two adjoining barracks were constructed on this site between 1837 and 1840. The two story complex stretched the length of the present parking lot. It was converted to stores in 1842 because of problems with smoke, cold and dampness.
Fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HW4_fort-royal-plaisance_Freshwater-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
English
Built in the Vauban style, Fort Royal was designed to protect against attackers with siege artillery and muskets. It contains three demi-bastions and one full bastion. The overlapping faces of the demi-bastions form a flank that elimina…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HVI_first-transatlantic-wireless-signal_St.-Johns-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
This memorial is dedicated
by
Canadian Marconi Company
to the government and people of Newfoundland to commemorate an outstanding event in the history of Newfoundland and a new era in world communications
The first transatlantic wireless si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HVH_fort-frederick_Placentia-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
A fort consisting of a semi-circular redoubt mounting twelve guns, a guard house, barracks and storehouse surrounded by a palisade was erected on this site in 1721 and was named after H.R.H. Prince Frederick, then Prince of Wales.
Although the mi…