The original (and possibly the ugliest) shopping mall in New foundland. The Avalon mall holds Saint John's Cinema, Wall Mart, a food court and a restaurant (plus other stuff). A stream (Rennie's brook) runs past the mall, the university, into Quidy-Vidy lake and then into the Atlantic via Quidi Vidi harbour.
Like Burkittsville,
Canadians have a strong desire to show off their
electrical and telecommunications systems.
Ariel displays such as this (and Young Street, below) are common.
John Hawboldt
brought me back from our
Hike
to Renews,
to discover the road awash and the Fish and Chip shop up the road on
fire.
(CBC)
Fires seem to be common place in St. John's.
Another shop down town had been burnt out just before I arrived in Canada.
A 12 h 58, heure de Terre-Neuve, le 14 juin 1919, le capitaine John Alcock et le lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown de la Royal Air Force decollaient du champ Lester's, pres d'ici, dans un biplane Vickers Vimy. Seize heures et douze minutes plus tard, ayant franchi une distance de 1,800 milles, ils se posaient a Clifden, en Irlande. Ils venaient d'accomplir le premier vol transatlantique sans escale.
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Goverment of Canada - 1952 - Goverment du Canada
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Replica Vimy bommer Science Museum.
Radio telegraph station at Clifden
A
brief mention of Lester's Field Barracks in 1941.
