Across the tickle: A return to Battle Harbour, Labrador

Located nine miles off Labrador’s southeast coast, Battle Harbour is a bit of a challenge to get to. You can make most of that journey via the Trans-Labrador Highway these days, or by some combination of flights, ferries and vehicle as far as Mary’s Harbour on the Labrador mainland. But the last leg is a 45-minute small-boat ride into open sea, skirting a handful of treeless, unoccupied islands.

For generations, Battle Harbour was considered the unofficial capital of Labrador, a centre of fishing through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, it has reinvented itself as a remote island getaway known for its rugged beauty.

Read award-winning author Michael Crummey's delightful story, accompanied by incredible photography by Michael Winsor, here.

On the road with Jon Montgomery

Whether it’s flying face-first down a skeleton track, celebrating a gold medal win or racing (amazingly) across the world, Jon Montgomery does it in a quintessentially Canadian style. With this season promising to be a summer of Canadian travel, there’s no one better to curate your summer road trip than Montgomery — and that’s just what he’s done with four classically Canadian RV itineraries.

“When it comes to savouring what’s all around you, there’s no better way to do it than through an RV adventure,” says Montgomery. “And that’s why people come from all over the world to jump in an RV and criss-cross what is 10 million square kilometres of beautiful country.”

Check out highlights from Montgomery’s RV guides — created in association with GO RVing Canada — here.

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