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Posted: Apr 22, 2021 6:00 AM NT | Last Updated: April 22 comments
The Main River was designated a Canadian Heritage River in 2001 for its pristine watershed and old-growth forest. In 2009, it became a provincial park.(Submitted by Lem Mayo)
Gary Gale has known the Main River his whole life and how special the Northern Peninsula waterway, and the land surrounding it, is. I ve fished and hiked the Main, God since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I suppose, he told CBC from his home in Hampden.
The Main River is about as remote as it gets in Newfoundland. You can see the mouth of it, where it spills into White Bay between the two communities of Sop s Arm and Pollard s Point, but there was no road access into its watershed whatsoever until the mid-1980s, and even then, nothing beyond rough woods roads.