Worth stopping for
Heart's Content Cable Station
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This is why the town is on the map: in 1866 the first successful permanent transatlantic telegraph cable was landed at Heart's Content, reducing the time to communicate across the Atlantic from weeks to minutes. The provincial historic site here is an 1875 office building with a 1918 extension, and its exhibits cover the history of telegraphy and the part this town played in it. It keeps a season rather than year-round hours, so the site's own page is where the current dates live, not here.
Stopping here adds about 2 min and 0.9 km to that drive (1h 49m door to door).
This is why the town is on the map: in 1866 the first successful permanent transatlantic telegraph cable was landed at Heart’s Content, reducing the time to communicate across the Atlantic from weeks to minutes. The provincial historic site is an 1875 office building with a 1918 extension. It keeps a season rather than year-round hours, so the site’s own page is where the current dates live.
Stopping here adds about 0 min and 0 km to that drive (3h 53m door to door).
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What the map knows
While you're stopped here: Railway Station Museum (18.3 km away) · Gordon G. Pike Railway Heritage Museum (22.6 km away) · Spirit of Harbour Grace (23.8 km away)
All of it read from the cited element and this site's own measured stops (2026-09-05); nothing above is our endorsement — it is the map's record.
Where this pin comes from: OpenStreetMap node/473136419 → — the same element every figure on this page is checked against.