The landmark hill guarding the Narrows — the entrance to St. John's harbour. Site of the noon-day gun, Cabot Tower (1897), and a recurring vantage point in Newfoundland fiction. (Source: Parks Canada, Signal Hill National Historic Site.)
Scenes set here
TownNancy Pedri
“I chose Signal Hill because it's such an iconic part of St. John's. Every time I go up there, it's just so beautiful and majestic — unless it's fogged in, and then you can't see…”
Books here
- mentionedThe Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Wayne Johnston
Signal Hill features as the vantage for the sealing fleet's departure — a recurring set piece in the novel.
settingOne For the RockKevin Major
Breakwater publisher copy names "the cliffs of St. John's harbour"; the Miramichi Reader review pins the precise landmark — Signal Hill — and the guard-rail death scene.
