Bell Island Number 2 Mine Tour & Museum

Bell Island Heritage Society Inc. The Bell Island Heritage Society is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of our rich cultural heritage. At the Bell Island Community Museum & #2 Mine Tour you’ll be greeted by local tour guides who will share our history and tell you amazing stories about

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Beothuk Institute

  Beothuk Institute Incorporated The Mission of the Beothuk Institute to create, maintain and enhance public knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the Beothuk People and their prehistoric ancestors, and to initiate, support and/or encourage projects commensurate with this aim. The Beothuk Institute participates in research projects and archaeological digs in search of the

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Bishop’s Falls Heritage Centre

Bishop’s Falls Heritage Society This Heritage Center is a project of the Bishop’s Falls Heritage Society and displays artifacts from the local history with emphasis on the railway, logging, sports, and community. There are railways artefacts, as well as those from the logging and forestry industries. The Museum also has

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Blackhead One Room School & Church Museum

Located in Blackhead village, near Cape Spear, is this beautifully restored one room school and church, originally constructed in 1879. The building is a Provincially Designated Heritage Structure.

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Bleak House Museum

The Town of Fogo Island The Bleak House, built around 1816 for John Slate of Poole, England, was the principle house of the fish merchant Henry J. Earle and Family from 1897 – 1967. Restored in 1986-87 with many original items belonging to the Earle family and other artifacts depicting

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Bonavista Museum & Archives

The Town of Bonavista & The Bonavista Historical Society The Bonavista Museum, located at the Ryan Premises National Historic Site, showcases various aspects of local culture dating back to the late 19th century such as domestic life and entertainment, school, church, mercantile activity and occupations such as fishing, sealing, logging,

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Bonne Bay Cottage Hospital Museum

Bonne Bay Cottage Hospital Heritage Corporation The Old Cottage Hospital is an historic building that has served the residents of the Bonne Bay area since 1938. Also known as the Julia Ann Walsh Centre, it houses a wellness centre; a community kitchen; a Covid-safe, family-friendly hostel; the VOBB (Voice of

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Brett House Museum

The Town of Fogo Island The original section of the Brett House is at the back of the present structure. It was built in the early 1870s by John Brett (1851-1935), and was situated directly across the road from the present house. It was a very small house with an

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Burgeo Memorial Museum

Town of Burgeo Housed in the former community library, the museum focuses on the 400 year old history of Burgeo and the surrounding area. The French were the first to settle in Burgeo during the late 1700’s, followed by the English between 1790 – 1796. At that time, the town’s

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