Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 06:46:50 -0800
Reply-To: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
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From: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Baie Comeau to Labrador to Newfoundland
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The map that everyone here "needs" is called "Quebec's Far North." One can call Tourism Quebec
at:
1 877 266-5687. I just called them and I was initially told that the map did not exist, then that
they were out, and after getting through 2 levels of supervisors.......they will send the map + a
general Quebec map + provincial parks map + camp-grounds of Quebec. Ask for them all.
FYI: http://www.bonjourquebec.com/ca-en/accueil0.html and I'd suggest that you each contact:
Tourism Newfoundland ( http://www.newfoundlandandlabradortourism.com/welcome.zap )
and Tourism Nova Scotia ( http://novascotia.com/en/home/default.aspx )
and Tourism New Brunswick: http://www.tourismnewbrunswick.ca/index.htm
for free maps and lists of campgrounds. Do it now.
Also here are some posts that I've made to vanagon.com re doing the Labrador loop. Please NOTE
the dates of the posts, and some posts point to other posts:
http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0301A&L=vanagon&P=R5959
http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0301A&L=vanagon&P=R13441
http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0301D&L=vanagon&P=R10684
http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0202D&L=vanagon&P=R18700
http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0202D&L=vanagon&P=R22039
FWIW, I did not follow through on my planned trip in 2003.
I'm cc'ing this to the vanagon.com list so that it will be in the archives.
OK? Malcolm (Halifax)
--- Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> So, how shall we proceed from here? I've never organized a lengthy caravan,
> please advise, guys!
>
> Anyone want to do a bit of googling and find out the details on the ferry
> from Happy Valley/Goosebay to Cartwright? The ferry down from Labrador to
> Newfoundland is short and relatively cheap and reservations don’t seem to be
> an issue. But we ought to be prepared for sticker shock on the other ferry
> - those boats are pricey! Prepare for sticker shock on gas prices up there,
> too, of course.
>
> We ought to do some serious study of the maps, too, and figure out how long
> it really would take to go from BusFusion via Labrador to Newfoundland. The
> road from Baie Comeau to Happy Valley/Goosebay is around 1600 kms, as I
> recall, the ferry around ten hours as I recall, and the road down to the
> ferry to Newfoundland another 550 kms, of which something like 100 are
> paved. So we're talking about something like 2000 kms on dirt (dust?)
> roads, which we'll definitely want to take slowly. Getting to Baie Comeau
> will be a different matter, requiring thorough study of the map.
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