Tilting

Tilting is on the east side of Fogo Island at the end of Route 334. It’s the furthest community from the ferry terminal in Stag Harbour.

Tilting is a National Historic Site and Provincial Heritage District. Tilting is the oldest community on Fogo Island.

From an interpretive sign in town:

Originally founded by the French in the 17th century century as a base for their transatlantic fishery. Tilting became a station for the English and Irish migratory fishery sometime after 1713. Permanent settlement followed in the 1720’s, and by the 1770’s it had become a predominantly Irish community, shortly evolving into an exclusively Irish preserve. The cultural milieu in which those early Irish thrived is evidenced today both in the material culture and vibrant oral traditions for which Tilting is so well known. Tilting is one of the few rural Newfoundland communities where the full range of the building associated with the traditional family-based, inshore fishery can still be experienced.

When you drive into town on Route 334 follow it past Hurley’s Store and Gas Station. The road wraps around the harbour and ends at a large wharf and the town hall. You’ll pass several historic buildings. We’d recommend you check out the Dwyer Premises. It’s on the left, just before town hall.