Icebergs, fjords and North America's easternmost edge
Newfoundland & Labrador is Canada's most easterly province, a windswept world of sea-cliffs, fjords, fishing outports and drifting icebergs at the far edge of the Atlantic. The island of Newfoundland holds the UNESCO landscapes of Gros Morne and the Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows, while mainland Labrador stretches north into vast subarctic wilderness. This is the territory of the Mi'kmaq, Innu and Inuit, and historically the Beothuk. St. John's, the colourful capital and largest city, is one of the oldest European-founded cities in North America and the gateway via YYT. The province keeps Canada's only half-hour time zone, and along its shores you can watch icebergs and whales pass through Iceberg Alley each spring and summer. Maple Fun does not yet run a standard catalog tour here, but we arrange custom itineraries on request.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site on the island's west coast, Gros Morne is famed for its glacier-carved fjords, soaring cliffs and the otherworldly Tablelands, where ancient ocean-floor rock lies exposed. A boat trip up Western Brook Pond between sheer walls is the park's signature experience. It is a paradise for hikers, geologists and landscape photographers.
The capital tumbles down to a sheltered harbour in rows of brightly painted row-houses known as Jellybean Row. Signal Hill, where Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless signal, crowns the city with sweeping ocean views and the path to Cape Spear, the easternmost point in North America. Lively pubs along George Street round out a visit.
Each spring and early summer, 10,000-year-old icebergs drift south along the northeast coast in what locals call Iceberg Alley. Twillingate is one of the best places to see them from shore or by boat, often alongside breaching whales and seabird colonies. It is the classic Newfoundland scene of ice, sea and outport village.
At the island's northern tip lies the only confirmed Norse settlement in North America, dating to around 1,000 years ago — the first known European presence in the New World. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it features reconstructed sod buildings and costumed interpreters. It is a remarkable, remote place where Viking history meets the open Atlantic.
No standard tour catalogue entries for Newfoundland & Labrador yet — but we build custom itineraries here regularly. Ask us about it →
