IN THE MIDST of ancient tundra, Labrador City is a mining town that shows the modern, industrial face of Canada. The town is home to the largest open-pit iron mine in the world and the community has largely grown up around it since the late 1950s.

HAUNTINGLY beautiful coastal landscapes explain why the Labrador Straits is a popular place to visit in this province.

A UNITED NATIONS World Heritage Site, Gros Morne is Newfoundland’s scenic masterpiece. Here the Long Range Mountains rise 700 m (2,000 ft) above blue fjords that cut into the coastal range.

IN SOUTHERN Newfoundland a 45-km (28-mile) coastal drive along Route 470 from Channel Port-aux-Basques to Rose Blanche leads through a landscape of ancient, jagged, green mountains and along a rocky, surf-carved shoreline.

BEST KNOWN for its illustrious aviation history, Gander is a small town and a useful tourist center for fuel and food. In Grand Falls-Windsor, 100 km (57 miles) west of Gander, the Mary March Regional Museum, named after the last survivor of the now extinct Beothuk people, traces 5,000 years of human habitation in the [...]

ON THE EAST side of Notre Dame Bay, traditional Newfoundland outports maintain a way of life that echoes their history. The Twillingate Museum, located in an elegant Edwardian rectory in Twillingate, has several rooms furnished with period antiques.

Tracing the edge of St. John’s waterfront, Water Street is the oldest public thoroughfare in North America, dating to the late 1500s when trading first started in the town.

Newfoundland is a place where land, water and sky hug like old pals, and the edge of North America holds an adventure as immense as the heavens.

With towering peaks, vast landscapes, and 17,000 kilometres of rugged coastline, Newfoundland and Labrador displays wild, open spaces and grand spectacles of nature.