Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II TRAVELLED ROUTES TO LABRADOR By W. T. Grenfell The northeast coast of Labrador can be reached at present only via Newfoundland. A passenger steamer runs from each side of the island to Labrador. These steamers belong to the Reid-Newfoundland Company, and receive a subsidy to carry the mails. They are both smart, stout boats, and are in the hands of such old experienced pilot captains that in spite of the badly charted coast, the icebergs, and the absence of most of the aids to navigation in the more beaten tracks, no danger beyond what is incidental to every sea trip need be anticipated. There has never yet been a life lost from accident on these mail boats visiting the Labrador coast. The tourist must choose whether he vishes to go by the west or east coast of Newfoundland. The east coast boat runs once a fortnight. She calls at many points along the cast coast of Labrador as far as Nain, in lat. 56, and also at several points on the east coast of Newfoundland. The west coast boat makes weekly trips, starting from Bay of Islands. She touches at ports on the island, crosses the Strait, and visits the southern shore of Labrador, from Bonne Esperance to Battle Harbour, at the entrance to the Strait of Belle Isle. Here she connects with the east coastboat, so that visitors can come by the one route and return by the other; the tickets are good on either steamer. St. John's is connected with Bay of Islands by direct railway communication.1 The Reid-Newfoundland Company issue an illustrated "Souvenir" of Newfoundland. This contains an excellent map of all the routes of their lines, and also takes in the whole coast of Newfoundland and the Labrador coast as far north as their steamer goes, i.e. to Nain. As far as Chateau in the Strait of Belle Isle, the tourist i...