Meanings
- A region of southwestern Newfoundland, Canada, known for extremely high winds.
[…]in Wreckhouse, the only road [is] a deathtrap as wind tops a hundred fifty. Routinely the station warns: seek shelter, stay off the road, its voice a modern stand-in for native foresight.
2024 October 4, C.H. Connors, The New Estate, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN2 more examples
[…]to Wreckhouse, the place where he was born. It was all woods up there at one time until they cut it all out. It was a really pretty place, beautiful in the summer but no good in winter. It was lonely up there at first and I done[…]
1992, Marian Frances White, The Finest Kind: Voices of Newfoundland and Labrador Women, St. John's, Nfld. : Creative, →ISBNThe Wreckhouse region lies northwest of Channel-Port aux Basques between Cape Ray and St. Andrew's. It's hard to say how you should experience Wreckhouse. You can drive through this stretch of the TCH on the south west tip of[…]
2010 October 15, Janice Wells, Newfoundland and Labrador Book of Musts: The 101 Places Every Newfoundlander and Labradorian Must See, Nimbus+ORM, →ISBN, page 82
Origin
wreck + house, in reference to the region's hurricane-strength winds.
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