St. John’s is the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador and is a very old and authentic city. Whilst in St. Johns it is worth visiting Signal Hill Park where a lot of historical turning points have taken place here including the first wireless trans-Atlantic message being received here by Marconi. Signal Hill Park is also a historical manifestation of the final stages of the Seven Years War. Cabot Tower is the centre of Signal Hill Park and was built in 1897 in commemoration of John Cabot. In order to complete the historical tour, one should visit the Newfoundland Museum which is located on Duckworth Street.

Once a rumbustious port, it's become a far more subdued place, the rough houses of the waterfront mostly replaced by shops and offices, its economy dominated by white-collar workers who are concentrated in a string of downtown skyscrapers and in the Confederation Building, the huge government complex on the western outskirts.

Yet although the city's centre of gravity has begun to move west, the waterfront remains the social centre, home of lively bars that feature the pick of Newfoundland folk music - the best single reason for visiting. Almost all of the older buildings were destroyed by fire in the nineteenth century or demolished in the twentieth, so although St John's looks splendid from the water, with tier upon tier of pastel-painted houses rising from the harbour, there are not a lot of major sights, with the notable exception of the grand basilica , and the Newfoundland Museum , which provides an excellent introduction to the history of the island and its people. Elsewhere, Signal Hill National Historic Site , overlooking The Narrows, has great views back over the city and out across the Atlantic, while the drive out to the rugged shoreline of Cape Spear , the continent's most easterly point, makes for a pleasant excursion, as does the trip to the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve .