ABSTRACT
Focusing on the case of Bell Island, this chapter examines the significance of maritime boundary making and unmaking in relation to ferry travel to coastal and small island communities in Newfoundland and Labrador from the mid-19th to the early 21st centuries. It considers the twofold nature of making symbolic and physical boundaries through the repeated traversing of maritime passages as well as through ferry routes’ physical position in topographies. The chapter also considers the mobility and transit justice questions associated with public ferry services and the irony of public culture discourses that marginalise ferry aquamobilities in a place that relies on both maritime and air travel.
