Table of Contents
Map of Sites 12
Introduction 15
About this Guide 15
The Origin of Newfoundland's Lost Wonders 19
Exploring Newfoundland Safely 33
The Great Northern Peninsula 37
1 Chimney Cove 40
2 Lomond and Stanleyville 43
3 Pissing Mare Falls 51
4 Middle Brook Falls & Swimming Hole 52
5 The Old Man 55
6 Cow Head Lighthouse 57
7 St. Anthony Radar Station 58
8 SS Empire Energy 61
9 Big Brook 69
10 Hand-Built Ships of Bide Arm 71
11 The Underground Salmon River 72
12 Conche Harbour Lighthouse 74
13 Conche Plane Crash 76
14 Glass Hole 78
15 Lost Airstrips of the Northern Peninsula 80
West Coast 83
1 Grand Lake 86
2 Main Dam 94
3 Serpentine Valley 98
4 Lomond Sinkhole 105
5 Sinkholes & Disappearing Streams 108
6 Corner Brook Stream Caves 115
7 Valmont Drive-In 120
8 York Harbour Mine 122
9 Cedar Cove 126
10 Governor's Staircase 129
11 Bottle Cove Sea Cave 131
12 Copper Mine Falls 132
13 Swimming Hole atop Steady Brook Falls 135
14 Corner Brook Quarry Falls 136
Southwest Coast 141
1 Earnest Harmon Air Force Base 145
2 Blanche Brook 153
3 Gypsum Cliffs & a Sinkhole Forest 154
4 Western Pinetree Line Radar Station 156
5 Fox Island Lighthouse 161
6 The Gravels Walking Trail 163
7 Lead Cove Mine 164
8 Aguathuna Limestone Quarry 166
9 West Bay & Jerry's Nose Transmitter Sites 171
10 Kissing Rocks Sea Arch 174
11 Long Point 176
12 Port au Port Crash 178
13 Highlands Sea Stacks 181
14 Red Rocks Building 182
15 MV Sadie and Eva 185
White Bay to Green Bay 187
1 Sop's Arm Barge 190
2 Coney Arm & Eastern Brook Falls 192
3 Cat Arm Hydro Facility & Construction Tunnels 195
4 Rattle Brook Spillway 196
5 Tilt Cove Copper Mine 199
6 Baie Verte Asbestos Mine 204
7 King's Point Rattling Brook Falls 209
8 Glassy Beach 210
9 Pilley's Island Mine 212
10 Little Bay Islands 215
Central Newfoundland 219
1 The Topsails 222
2 Buchans Mine 227
3 Thunder Brook Falls 232
4 Botwood's Seaplane Base 234
5 Phillips Head & Wisemans Head Battery 239
6 Fjords of the South Coast 243
7 Grey River Tungsten Mine 246
Lewisporte to Bonavista Bay 249
1 HMS Calypso/Briton 252
2 Horwood Lumber Company Mill 257
3 SS Ahem Trader Shipwreck 263
4 Sir Frederick Banting's Plane Crash 266
5 Sleepy Cove Mine 268
6 Miss Bayview II and South Twillingate Island Ferry Terminal 271
7 Lower Little Harbour Sea Arch 272
8 Gander Ammunition Bunkers 274
9 The "Turkey Farm" 276
10 Thomas Howe Demonstration Forest Crash Site 279
East Coast 283
1 Dungeon Provincial Park 289
2 Bonavista Airstrip 292
3 Arch Rock 295
4 Town of Port Union 297
5 The Trinity Loop 302
6 Terra Nova Sulphite Company Pulp Mill 307
7 Burgoynes Cove B-36 Crash 310
8 Black Brook Falls 316
9 Newfoundland's First Pulp Mill 319
10 The Wreck of Senator Penny 323
11 St. Lawrence Fluorspar Mines 326
12 Chambers Cove 328
Trinity Bay & Conception Bay West 331
1 SS Charcot, SS Southern Foam, & SS Sukha 334
2 Hamilton Banker 338
3 Brigus Tunnel 340
4 SS Kyle 343
5 Ridley Hall 347
6 North America's First Civilian Airport 348
7 The Overfalls 352
8 Northern Bay Sea Arch 355
9 Mouse Hole Arch 356
10 New Harbour Trout Farm Project 358
11 Hopeall Falls 363
12 Chance Cove Coastal Trail 364
13 Collier Point Barite Mine 366
Placentia Bay & the Southern Avalon Peninsula 369
1 La Manche Lead Mine 373
2 La Manche Community 376
3 Spencer's Cove 379
4 Fumi Maru No. 15 Shipwreck 380
5 Argentia Naval Air Base & Fort McAndrew 383
6 Isaac Head Battery 394
7 Rocky River Waterfall & Bridge 396
8 Cataracts Provincial Park 399
9 Bay Bulls Hydroelectric Facility 400
10 The Spout 403
11 SS Ilex 404
12 La Manche 409
13 Spout River Falls 413
14 Berry Head Sea Arch 414
Northeast Avalon 417
1 Bell Island Mines 420
2 Bell Island Battery 433
3 The Bell 436
4 Kelligrews Abandoned Pool 438
5 NASA's Satellite Tracking Station 441
6 Red Cliff Radar Station 442
7 Central Swine Breeding Station 448
8 Fort Amherst 450
9 Chain Rock 458
10 Bowring Park Cantilever Bridge 461
11 Brookfield Drive-In 462
12 Military Batteries of the East Coast 467
Exploring Further 473
Index of Places 477
Photo Credits 483
Acknowledgements 484
About the Author 486
