My new home in Back Harbour, Twillingate, Newfoundland Canada is an old historic home that overlooks Notre Dame Bay and famous iceberg alley. I recently learned that the house was floated over sea from another outport destination during resettlement in Newfoundland between the years 1954-1975. During that time period over 300 rural communities and 30, 000 people were moved to more populated areas. A lot of families simply took their homes with them by floating them across to new destinations. Crazy right? I am still uncertain the original origin of the house but some local residents think it may have came from Tizzard’s Harbour NL. I’m excited to find the mystery origin so I can take an adventure to the site.

Furthermore, I also learned that the land was home to the Maritime Archaic People and the Palaeo Eskimo (Pre-Historic Eskimo) and I am truly fascinated. It’s not uncommon around here to find ancient artifacts in the ground such as arrowheads made from rocks. I look forward to showing you more of “The Back Harbour Beach House” and am so grateful to own and preserve this piece of Newfoundland and Labrador history.