A tourist takes in all of the maritime provinces, including the Trans-Larbador highway. This is the trip that many people have contemplated - a ring of travel through Quebec, Labrador, by ferry to Newfoundland, by ferry to Nova Scotia, and winding back through the rest of the Altantic provinces.
This site contains many links and pointers to information on Labrador. Try the Bookmarks page under "Other"
This is a portal website for many of the communities
of Labrador.
Using this website, each community in Labrador is responsible for
their own page, which gives detailed information
about their
community, including a town history, upcoming events and news, and
local contact information.
A Scoff an' Scuff contains local information about Labrador. Anything from local Christmas receipes to how to find Crystal Falls outside of Labrador City, to information on the B-17 bomber that was recovered from a lake. The site navigation is totally within the left side frame menu.
People have been emailing me a link to a web site that says it is photos of the Trans-Labrador Highway being reopened at the end of winter. I asked the webmaster of the site under the Newfoundland government Department of Education about the source of the photos, and he confirmed it is not a section of the Trans-Labrador highway (Route 500) but a highway in south-eastern Labrador.
These pictures where taken on the new section of the highway between
Red Bay and Mary's Harbour. Actually I think they were taken near Lodge
Bay. I could not track down the photographer but through some friends
that emailed me, they are sure that's were they were taken.
(The link to the original web site is at Newfoundland Dept of Education is gone, but I've found similar ones from Stormpost.com).
The photos are real, but you need to remember that large amounts of blowing snow can fill in hollow areas or an area on the lee side of a large hill. On a smaller scale, if snow fills in level a 7 foot deep ditch, it doesn't mean you had 7 feet of snow. Scale that up and you can get snow 40 feet deep or more, when there is a lot of snowfall with high winds over an extended period of time.
Many of the pictures I've found like this, comment that the highway goes through a gap in a rock cut. This helps to build the illusion that the entire area has snow this deep, while the landscape that forms the hollow or gap cannot be seen, depending on the direction and area of the pictures.
For information on Newfoundland tourism in general, I suggest a visit to the Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism.