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Pressing on from Port au Choix, it's about 80km to the hamlet of ST BARBE , where there's a car ferry service on the MS Apollo (May-Dec 1-3 daily; 1hr 30min; $9 passengers, $18.50 vehicles; tel 726-0015 or 1-800/563-6353) across the Strait of Belle Isle to Blanc-Sablon , on the Québec-Labrador boundary ; vehicles are taken on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets for the ferry can be purchased at the Dockside Motel and Cabins just up the road from the terminal (tel 877-2444, www.docksidemotel.nf.ca ; $40-60/$60-80). If you're waiting for the ferry, the only place to eat is in the motel dining room.

From St Barbe, Route 430 slips through a handful of fishing villages before cutting east across the peninsula for the fishing and supply centre of ST ANTHONY . With a population of about four thousand, this is the region's largest settlement, but it's not much more than a humdrum port stretched out around the wide sweep of its harbour, the main recompense being the remains of the Norse village at L'Anse aux Meadows, 42km north along route 430 .

In town, the one worthwhile attraction is the Grenfell House Museum (daily: June-Aug 9am-8pm; Sept 9am-1pm & 2-5pm; off-season by appointment), tucked behind the Charles S. Curtis Hospital. The building, a dark-green shingled house in New England cottage style, is the restored home of the pioneering missionary doctor, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, an Englishman who first came here on behalf of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen in 1892. He never moved back home and, during his forty-year stay, he established the region's first proper hospitals, nursing stations, schools and co-operative stores. Behind the house, there's a pleasant woodland path that leads to the top of a hill, where the ashes of Grenfell and his wife are kept. The newly constructed Grenfell Interpretive Centre (daily: June-Aug 9am-8pm, Sept-Dec 9am-5pm; tel 454-4010, www3.nf.sympatico.ca/grenfell ; $5, includes admission to museum), opposite the hospital, has two floors on Grenfell's life and a shop that sells local handicrafts.