Credit: Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archive, Collection 137, photo number 0739.

1929 The Burin Tidal Wave

These trucks are collecting relief supplies in St. John's for victims of the 1929 tidal wave. On November 18, 1929, an earthquake under the sea caused a tidal wave that swept on to the Burin Peninsula from Rock Harbour to Lamaline, covering about 65 kilometres of coastline. Twenty-seven people were killed.