Map showing the location of Quidi Vidi Lake — Regatta Course in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Quidi Vidi Lake — Regatta Course

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Map location of Quidi Vidi Lake — Regatta Course

South shore of Quidi Vidi Lake near the bandstand off The Boulevard. Home of the Royal St. John's Regatta — North America's oldest continuous sporting event. (Source: stjohnsregatta.ca.)

Scenes set here

  • Cover of The Tin Triangle
    The Tin Triangle

    Linda Abbott

    We attended the regatta as a family, with neither of us mentioning the crisis in Europe. The grassy banks of Quidi Vidi were lined with booths and concessions, people milling ab…

Books here

  • Cover of Regatta by Jack Fitzgerald
    subjectRegatta

    Jack Fitzgerald

    A history of the Royal St. John's Regatta, rowed at Quidi Vidi Lake since the early 19th century.

References

  1. 1.Regatta: Breakwater Books product page for Regatta; the Royal St. John's Regatta is held at Quidi Vidi Lake.
  2. 2.Scene from The Tin Triangle: Linda Abbott, 'The Tin Triangle' excerpt in Atlantic Books Today (2016)