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CHAPTER XVI
TOURS BY RAIL AND STEAMER
Conception Bay: Trinity Bay
St. John's to Placentia: Placentia to Port-aux-Basques by steamer.
Bonavista Bay. Notre Dame Bay.
St. John's—Grand Falls—Grand Lake—Humbermouth (Bay of Islands—Bonne Bay)—Spruce Brook—St. George's Bay—Doyle's—Little River—Port-aux- Basque) by rail.[1]
Port-aux-Basques—Bay of Islands—Bonne Bay—Battle Harbour by steamer.
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St. John's—Brigus Junction—Carbonear (Conception Bay) by rail.[2] Carbonear—Clarenville (Trinity Bay) by steamer.
The railway to Brigus Junction (42 m.) skirts for more than half the distance the south shore of Conception Bay. From Topsail, Manuel's, Kelligrews and Holyrood, attractive vacation places, Bell Island is in plain sight. This is an expanse of iron-bearing rock 6 miles long whose mines are owned by the Nova Scotia Steel and the Dominion
- ↑ The trans-insular express leaves St. John's every evening except Friday, and Port-aux-Basques every morning except Monday. See "Transportation," third paragraph, Chapter XIV.
- ↑ This trip may be made a day's excursion by leaving St. John's on the morning local train and returning from Carbonear by afternoon branch train to Brigus Junction where connection may be made for St. John's (2 hours), arriving 9:15 p. m.
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