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Attractions in Torbay

Torbay History House and Museum: Torbay’s one place to visit

The best-known day out from Torbay is Signal Hill, 11 km away. We list one place to visit inside Torbay’s municipal boundary and another within 5 km of its edge.

Photo: Signal Hill, Tolivero~commonswiki (CC BY-SA 3.0)
In Torbay
1
inside the municipal boundary
Within 5 km
1
of the town’s edge
Museums & galleries
2
in or near town
Best known

Torbay’s big names

MuseumMuseumTorbay History House and Museumin townMuseumMuseumLogy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Museum1.9 km outside town, to the east

Each has a page of its own: what it is, who runs it, the weather month by month and what else is near it.

The map

How they lie

Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Museum, 5.9 km away, is the farthest on the map.

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The dashed line is Torbay’s municipal boundary; orange marks its middle (where most people live). Numbers match the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors · Statistics Canada 2021 outline

By kind

Grouped by kind

They are all museums or galleries: 2 in all.

Museums & galleries 2 museums1 in town · 1 nearby

Green: inside Torbay. Grey: within 5 km of its edge.

Every place

Everything to see

The one inside Torbay comes first, then one more within 5 km of its edge.

The one inside Torbay comes first, then the places within 5 km, close and well known first. Provincial and city parks are on the Outdoors page instead.

Historic places in Torbay → · Parks, footpaths and green space in Torbay →

Big names nearby

Further afield

Museum · Parks CanadaSignal Hill11 km southeastMuseumThe Rooms11 km southeast · 87K visitors a year (2017)ChurchBasilica of St. John the Baptist10 km southeastMuseumFormer Newfoundland Railway Headquarters12 km southeastCathedralSt. John the Baptist Anglican Cathedral11 km southeastMuseumJohnson Geo Centre10 km southeastAquariumAquariumSuncor Energy Fluvarium8.7 km southeastMuseum · Parks CanadaCabot Tower11 km southeastMuseumCape Spear Lighthouse18 km southeastGardenSt. Thomas Rectory / Commissariat House and Garden10 km southeast
MuseumHawthorne Cottage38 km southwest
MuseumFormer Carbonear Railway Station (Newfoundland Railway)38 km west

Places well known beyond Torbay (Wikipedia articles in several languages, published visitor counts, or a Parks Canada property), close and famous first. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the town.

What people ask about Torbay

Is there a Parks Canada property near Torbay?

Not within 5 km. The closest Parks Canada property on our list is the one named above, 11 km southeast.

What are the best-known days out near Torbay?

Within 40 km: The Rooms (11 km), Basilica of St. John the Baptist (10 km), Former Newfoundland Railway Headquarters (12 km), St. John the Baptist Anglican Cathedral (11 km).

How is this list made?

Four open sources feed it (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, ODCAF and the federal and Québec heritage registers), merged so each place appears once. Forts, houses, lighthouses and churches stay only with a sign they are open to visitors, and businesses such as hotels, restaurants and tour operators are left out. Every place is tied to the town by its 2021 outline, or by lying within 5 km of it.

Places to visit: Canada publishes no open tourism list, so this one is assembled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), Wikidata (CC0), Statistics Canada’s ODCAF museums and galleries (2020, Open Government Licence – Canada), the federal and Québec heritage registers and CPCAD’s national parks, and it reflects what mappers and editors have recorded. Forts, houses, lighthouses and churches count only with a sign that visitors are welcome. Places sit in each town’s 2021 census outline; visitor counts are Wikidata’s latest, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (11)

Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).