Royal Canadian Legion Branch #27 Museum

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 27 Clarenville Located in Clarenville. NL, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #27 Museum has a collection of information about local veterans of the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean Conflict. There are also photographs and information supplied by descendants of those veterans that have

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Provincial Seamen’s Museum

Provincial Seamen’s Museum – A Division of The Rooms Permanent Exhibition: Living The Life – Objects of Identity Explore artifacts from the land and sea, used by Newfoundland families from the 1800s to the mid 1900s. The people of Newfoundland have long been industrious and resourceful – making a living

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Paddle House Museum

Placentia West Heritage Commitee The Placentia West Development Association’s Heritage House is the perfect midpoint on the Heritage Run. The house is located at the intersection at Baine Harbour, and its a short trip to the scenic community of Rushoon. The House is run by the Placentia West Heritage Committee.

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Marystown Heritage Museum

Marystown Heritage Museum Corp. The museum holds a wide variety of exhibits featuring items from the town’s long and rich history, including artifacts used in everyday life and the tools that people used in earning their livings. There is also a display of shipbuilding in the Marystown area. The admission

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Livyers’ Lot Heritage Site

Placentia West Heritage Committee The Livyers’ Lot Heritage Site is a great place to explore traditional living in outport Newfoundland. Sample traditional food at the Tea Rose restaurant, visit the Paddle House museum, take part in a craft demonstration or make a purchase at the Economusee. Take a picnic lunch

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Lawn Museum

The Town of Lawn The Lawn Museum has local artefacts including items pertaining to the shipwreck disasters of the USS Pullux and USS Truxun as well as displays about the 1929 tidal wave that hit the region. There are also traditional domestic artefacts from the community such as woodstoves, radios,

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Lamaline Heritage Museum

Lamaline Heritage Society Inc. A glimpse into the community’s past. The Lamaline Heritage Museum has eight rooms displaying unique artifacts depicting life in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a model dory collection handcrafted by former Lamaliner/author/songwriter Otto Kelland, World War I and II, Genealogy, the Inshore Fishery and Scientific

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Home from The Sea – John C. Crosbie Sealers Interpretation Centre

Home from the Sea Foundation The Home from The Sea – John C. Crosbie Sealers Interpretation Centre provides visitors with multiple opportunities to learn about and reflect on the history of sealing and sealers, their stories of family and community are vividly brought to life through various artifacts, art and

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Green Family Forge

Trinity Historical Society Inc. The Green family worked as Blacksmiths in Trinity from the 1750s to 1955. Ada Nemec (nee Green) donated the forge containing a collection of tools used by six generations of her family. The present smithy was built between 1895 & 1900 and is unusually large –

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Gerald S. Doyle Memorial Museum

King’s Cove Historical Society Inc. The Gerald S. Doyle Memorial Museum, operated by the King’s Cove Historical Society Inc., is located in King’s Cove on Route 235 on the Bonavista Peninsula. It is dedicated to preserving and exhibiting the history of historic King’s Cove and area. Visitors are invited to

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