The Bay Roberts Shoreline Heritage Walk

The Bay Roberts Shoreline Heritage Walk

The Bay Roberts Shoreline Heritage Walk, which was developed by the Bay Roberts Heritage Society, offers a opportunity to pay honour to the past, while communing with nature away from the noise of today’s world.

The costal walk wanders along sheer cliffs, sweeps of beach, sheltered coves, and craggy headlands. From cliffs, coves, beaches, and headlands see whales follow caplin, squid, and other fish into the bay, especially in June and July; observe seabirds and bald eagles, and examine different types of wild flowers.

Bay Roberts East
Shoreline Heritage Walk

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Shoreline Heritage Walk

Stand where French fishermen, as long ago as the1500s, cured their fish on flat beach rocks calling the area Baie de Robert. Walk through foundations of homes, restored rockwalls, family gave yards, and refurbished root cellar on land where English fishermen and later their families lived and worked for almost 400 years.

French’s Cove and Juggler's Cove, with histories going back to the late 1500s and early 1600’s, are calm, sheltered places. French raids by Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville in 1697 and Jacques Testard de Montigny in 1705 destroyed the communities; however, the English settlers quickly rebuilt.

Juggler's Cove may be considered the birthplace of Bay Roberts. Occupied in the late 1500's and settled in the early 1600's, it gets its name from the dexterity needed (that of a juggler) to navigate into the cove.

**Juggler's Cove**

Fergus Island is named after Scottish merchant John Fergus who carried on a large supply business in 1812. The island viewed from French's Cove depicts the image of a Newfoundland dog at rest.

**Fergus Island**
Fergus Island From Juggle's Cove Grave Yard	Fergus Island

French’s Cove is named after the Edward French family who claimed land here going back to 1634. The remains of a fishing settlement are barely visible to the eye today. Imagine it as it must have looked 300 years ago.

**French's Cove**

At Madrock, the many of the moods of the true Atlantic coast are experienced including: soft mists, warm sunlight reflecting on still waters, or full-blown Atlantic storms with its massive breakers exploding against the rocks. The reason for the name "mad rock" becomes clear to anyone who experiences the surf pounding the shore.

**Mardrock**