Water Street is located in downtown St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It became a commercial trading outpost for the Basques, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. The street now boasts many souvenir shops, restaurants, pubs, and high-end boutiques, as well as other commercial ventures. To this day, the street remains the hub of commercial activity in the city; in 2020, the city implemented a seasonal pedestrian-only section of the road.
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| Location | St. John's |
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| East end | Temperance Street |
| West end | Waterford Bridge Road / Topsail Road |
| Official name | Water Street Historic District National Historic Site of Canada |
| Designated | 1987 |
National Historic Site
editThe Water Street Historic District was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1987 and comprises a group of commercial structures which are representative of the 19th-century mercantile businesses associated with the Newfoundland fisheries and the Atlantic trade.[1]
References
edit- ^ Water Street Historic District. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
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