Ryan Premises

48°38′52″N 53°06′47″W / 48.647796°N 53.112931°W / 48.647796; -53.112931

Ryan Premises (group of red-trimmed white buildings) in Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador

The Ryan Premises is a National Historic Site of Canada located in the town of Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador.[1] It is preserved as an example of a large-scale merchant operation in a Newfoundland outport.[2]

The site consists of the proprietor's house, a carriage shed, a retail shop, a retail store, a fish store and a salt store.[3] The staff house, adjacent to but not part of the historical site, is a Registered Heritage Structure.[4] Earlier, the premises also included a larger salt store, a cooperage, a powder magazine, a telegraph office, wharves, fish flakes, a lumber yard and a shipyard.[4][5]

  1. ^ Ryan Premises. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Ryan Premises National Historic Site of Canada: History". Parks Canada. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  3. ^ "Ryan Premises National Historic Site of Canada". Parks Canada. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  4. ^ a b "James Ryan Tenement House". Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. September 2004. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  5. ^ "James Ryan Limited (Bonavista) fonds". Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Retrieved 27 September 2010.