Queen's Battery

Queen's Battery and Barracks. Built ca. 1862 on the slope of Signal Hill to guard The Narrows, the entrance to St. John's Harbour. View from Cabot Tower. "The remains of batteries which once commanded the narrow entrance are visible on their rocky platforms".--Baedeker 1907. Signal Hill National Historic Site of Canada. DSC_0964

St. John's, Newfoundland

September 1st 2019
Peering out our cabin window at 6:30 a.m., I saw we were off Cape Spear, Newfoundland, with its flashing lighthouse. It had taken Caribbean Princess two days to sail down from Nanortalik, Greenland, to reach St. Johns's. Caribbean Princess was docked in downtown St. John's by 7 a.m. It was a beautiful day, another with intense sunlight. We had booked the Cape Spear Lighthouse, St. John's & Sign ... read more

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A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown. Economically and technologically the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the sou... ... read more

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