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Games

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Trivia

The Board

Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.

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Down the road

Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.

Heart's Content Cable Station

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The Victorian cable station where the first successful permanent transatlantic telegraph line came ashore in 1866 — 'weeks to minutes'.

Heart's Content on Trinity Bay is where the first successful permanent transatlantic telegraph cable was landed in 1866, cutting cross-Atlantic message times from weeks to minutes; the town stayed a global communications hub for more than a century. The station — an 1875 office building with a 1918 extension — offers interpreter-led or self-guided tours, Morse-code sending, a Discovery Room, a 1960s communications room and a film about laying the cable, while Cable Park across the road shows the remnants of the cable itself (See the Sites / provincial historic sites). The 2026 season runs May 16 to October 9, seven days a week.

How to get there

In the town of Heart's Content on Trinity Bay, directly off Route 80 — free parking at the site, with Cable Park and the cable remnants across the road.

When

Mid-May to early October (May 16-October 9 in 2026)

Fact

Where that comes from

On the go

Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.

The kitchen

Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.

The hall

Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.

The yarns

He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.

Not the house

No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.

Back up the road