Jellybean rows, rugged headlands and Canada's oldest city on the Atlantic edge
St. John's clings to the cliffs above Narrows Harbour with rows of vivid clapboard houses, a George Street pub scene that rivals anywhere in Canada, and Signal Hill watching over the Atlantic. Humpbacks surface off the cape in summer and icebergs drift past in spring.
One of North America's oldest continually settled European communities, St. John's has been a seasonal fishing base since the 1490s and a Royal Navy stronghold through the colonial era. The Battle of Signal Hill in 1762 was the last land engagement of the Seven Years' War on North American soil, and Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless signal here in 1901.