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St Anthony
Yeehaw! You've made it to the end of the road, your windshield has helped control the
insect population and you have seen two World Heritage sites. After such grandeur, St
Anthony may be a little anticlimactic. It's not what you'd call pretty, but it has a rough-
hewn charm. And the hiking and whale- and iceberg-watching are inspiring.
Grenfell is a big name around here. Sir Wilfred Grenfell was a local legend and, by all
accounts, quite a man. This English-born and educated doctor first came to Newfound-
land in 1892 and, for the next 40 years, traveling by dogsled and boat, built hospitals and
nursing stations and organized much-needed fishing cooperatives along the coast of Lab-
rador and around St Anthony.
Sights
Grenfell Historic
Properties
HISTORIC BUILDING
(
www.grenfell-properties.com
; West St; adult/child/family $10/3/22; 8am-5pm Jun-Sep)
A
number of local sites pertaining to Wilfred Grenfell are subsumed under Grenfell Histor-
ic Properties. The
Grenfell Interpretation Centre
, opposite the hospital, is a modern ex-
hibit recounting the historic and sometimes dramatic life of Grenfell. Its
handicraft shop
has some high-quality carvings and artwork, as well as embroidered parkas made by loc-
als - proceeds go to maintenance of the historic properties.
Grenfell Museum
MUSEUM
(
www.grenfell-properties.com
; 9am-6pm Jun-Sep)
Admission to the Grenfell Historic Prop-
erties also includes Grenfell's beautiful mansion, now the Grenfell Museum. It's behind
the hospital, about a five-minute walk from the waterfront. Dyed burlap walls and an-
tique furnishings envelop memorabilia, including a polar-bear rug and, if rumors are cor-
rect, the ghost of Mrs Grenfell.
Fishing Point Park
PARK
The main road through town ends at Fishing Point Park, where a lighthouse and towering
headland cliffs overlook the sea. The
Iceberg Alley Trail
and
Whale Watchers Trail
both
lead to clifftop observation platforms - the names say it all.
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