St Anthony

Introducing St Anthony

Yeehaw! You’ve made it to the end of the road, your windshield has helped control the insect population and you have seen two World Heritage sites. After such grandeur, St Anthony may be a little anticlimactic. It’s not what you’d call pretty, but it has a rough-hewn charm. And the hiking and whale- and iceberg-watching inspire.

Grenfell is a big name around here. Sir Wilfred Grenfell was a local legend and, by all accounts, quite a man. This English-born and -educated doctor first came to Newfoundland in 1892 and, for the next 40 years, traveling by dog-sled and boat, built hospitals and nursing stations and organized much-needed fishing cooperatives along the coast of Labrador and around St Anthony.

Last updated: Mar 2, 2009