Newfoundland Photos

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Holyrood means Holy Cross and there is one on the top of the mountain in Holyrood where I stayed at the Beach Cottage there.

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This is Holy Cross park in Holyrood where folks swim and picnic in the summer and skate in the winter.

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This is a typical fishing village.

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This is a look at one of the famous icebergs that floats down in the springtime.

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The Puffin is indigenous to Newfoundland and resembles a penguin, but is much smaller.

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Many of my ancestors worked in the mines both in Sydney, Nova Scotia and also on Bell Island, Newfoundland.

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Gower Street is in St. John's, Newfoundland and my third great grandpa, Vincent Costigan lived there for a time in the early 1800s after his wife died in Harbour Main.

All photos are from postcards I purchased in 1997 in St John's

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