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September 2022 - St. John's Newfoundland
Cape Spear National Historic Site is the most easterly point of land in Canada. Because of its strategic location, many people lived and worked here for various reasons.
Navigation of the rocky coastline brought the first people to the site in the mid-1800s, building what is now, the oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland and Labrador. The year 1836 marked the beginning of more than a century of light keepers and their families calling Cape Spear home.
During the Second World War, a very different kind of danger focused activities at Cape Spear. On a direct convoy route from Europe to the North American continent, Cape Spear took on a whole new significance. German submarines and raiders off the coast of the Island posed a considerable threat.
A coastal defence battery, equipped with two 10" guns was constructed here to protect the entrance to St. John's Harbour. The gun emplacements were built at the tip of the Cape and connected by underground passages to magazine and equipment rooms.
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From 1941 to 1945, troops were stationed here, and barracks, mess halls and canteens were built. With the end of hostilities in 1945, most of the fortifications were demolished but the gun emplacements stand as a sombre reminder of that important period in our military history.
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...history in a beautiful setting!
ReplyDeleteIt's a place I'd like to see someday.
ReplyDeleteIt’s easy to forget that World War II affected this continent. But here it is.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful place and it was interesting to read its history and ww II.
ReplyDeleteI always find such memorials stirring and somewhat holy.
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