sentences:  The former US Navy Air Station airfield on the Northside Peninsula has not been active for air traffic since 1973 other than for the Air Cadet Gliding Program.By the mid-1960s roads were upgraded between Argentia and the newly opened Trans-Canada Highway at Whitbourne.In 1967 a new ferry terminal was opened by Canadian National Railway and the "Ambrose Shea" became the first seasonal ferry to call at the port, largely carrying tourists bound for the Avalon Peninsula (19 hours crossing time) from North Sydney, Nova Scotia.