In the first few years after causeways linked New World Island and the mainland, Twillingate still had to be reached by ferry. Originally, the ferry Ambrose Shea served on the run, but it was burnt and damaged on 1 February 1965. The Ambrose Shea was then replaced by the eighteen-car ferry John Peyton, named after a well-known former resident. In 1973 a final bridge, now called the Walter B. Elliott Causeway, was built across Main Tickle, completing the road network. This causeway was named in honour of a Crow Head resident who was active in local and provincial politics. Twillingate’s north and south islands had been connected by this bridge the Shoal Tickle bridge decades earlier.