Map showing the location of St. John's Harbour (Harbourside Park) in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Place

St. John's Harbour (Harbourside Park)

Downtown · point

Map location of St. John's Harbour (Harbourside Park)

Harbourside Park on Harbour Drive, the downtown St. John's waterfront vantage point onto the harbour and the Narrows. (Source: City of St. John's; Google Maps location for Harbourside Park.)

Scenes set here

  • Cover of The Hush Sisters
    The Hush Sisters

    Gerard Collins

    The fog often fell upon St. John's harbour like a wolf that preyed upon a lamb — stealthy, sudden, and inescapable.

Books here

  • Cover of Rig by Mike Heffernan
    subjectRig

    Mike Heffernan

    Oral history of the Ocean Ranger sinking 170 nautical miles east of St. John's; harbour pin used as the city-side anchor of the disaster's memory.

  • Cover of Caught by Lisa Moore
    mentionedCaught

    Lisa Moore

    Slaney's destination — and the gravitational centre of the run — is Newfoundland and the smuggling coast.

References

  1. 1.Rig: Breakwater Books product page for Rig.
  2. 2.Caught: CBC Books page for Caught; the novel is rooted in a true Newfoundland smuggling tale.
  3. 3.Scene from The Hush Sisters: Gerard Collins, The Hush Sisters (Breakwater Books, 2020). Quoted in Allison Lawlor's review for Atlantic Books Today (Issue 92).