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10 unusual facts about Saint John, New Brunswick


Acadian Lines

In 2011, Acadian Lines cancelled bus service on the route between Saint John, New Brunswick and Bangor, Maine due to low ticket sales.

Canadian American Railroad

Owning this section gave JDI access to interchange points with Canadian National Railway (CN) at Saint John, New Brunswick, Guilford Rail System at Mattawamkeag, Maine, and Bangor & Aroostook Railroad (BAR) at Brownville Junction, ME.

In early January 1995 the eastern portion of the CAR mainline from Saint John, New Brunswick to Brownville Junction, Maine was sold to industrial conglomerate J.D. Irving Limited (JDI) which created the New Brunswick Southern Railway (NBS) and Eastern Maine Railway as subsidiaries.

Halifax, Nova Scotia railway station

Via Rail replaced the Scotian with a former CP train, the Atlantic which was extended from its eastern terminus at Saint John to Halifax.

Jaspa's Journey- The Great Migration

Jaspa's Journey—The Great Migration is a children's fantasy adventure written by Dr. Rich Meyrick and published in 2009 by DreamCatcher Publishing in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Mark Lackie

Mark Andrew Lackie (born March 23, 1967 in Saint John, New Brunswick) is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Pest house

Partridge Island, New Brunswick, just outside the main harbour of Saint John, was chosen as the location for a pest house and quarantine station as far back as 1785.

Promens

During 1999-2000 Sæplast acquired three companies abroad; in 1999 the Dyno AS factories in Ålesund, Norway and St. John, Canada, and in 2000, Nordic Supplies Container AS of Norway.

William Blowers Bliss

He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Jonathan Bliss and Mary Worthington, Massachusetts loyalists, and was educated at King's Collegiate School and King's College.

William Johnstone Ritchie

He was called to the bar of Nova Scotia in 1837 but moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, and was called to the bar of that province the following year.


Charles Bellamy

Bellamy's career first began during the summer of 1717 when he raided three ships off the coast of both New England and New Brunswick, before sailing northwards to establish a fortified encampment somewhere in the Bay of Fundy (most likely Saint Andrew's where he continued attacking fishing and raiding ships off the southern coast of Newfoundland.

Chaylon Brewster

In 2001, he was contacted by Brockway Biggs, an up-and-coming rapper from New Brunswick to produce a remix to his song, "The Pimp-T Theme" which was later nominated for an East Coast Music Award in 2003.

Collège du Sacré-Coeur

Collège du Sacré-Coeur (New Brunswick), a former religious college that was merged with the Université de Moncton and the New Brunswick Community College

Don Evans

An integral part of the Black Arts movement of the 1970s, Evans had his first plays, the one acts Orrin and Sugarmouth Sam Don’t Dance No More performed in 1972 at the Crossroads Theatre, a professional playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Edward Tanjore Corwin

He was born in New York City, July 12, 1834; graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1853, and at the Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, N. J. in 1856.

Embargo Act of 1807

Federal officials believed parts of Maine, such as Passamaquoddy Bay on the border with British-held New Brunswick, were in open rebellion.

Fraser Papers

Fraser's 3,700 employees worked in several pulp and paper mills in North America, including in Madawaska, Maine and in New Hampshire in the US, and Thurso, Quebec, and Edmundston, New Brunswick in Canada.

Gedney family

Joshua Gedney and his brother Joseph were forced to change their names to Gidney and to flee from New York to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1783.

Government of Canada Building, Moncton

The Government of Canada Building is one of the tallest buildings in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Hayley Lever

Throughout his life, he traveled and painted extensively, including Nova Scotia and Grand Manan Island in Canada, the Bahamas and Florida, while often returning to Europe.

Hub City Stompers

Hub City Stompers are a ska/reggae/Oi! band formed in 2002 and based out of New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Jacques LeBlanc

Jacques LeBlanc (born August 5, 1964 in Memramcook, New Brunswick, Canada) is a retired Acadian Middleweight Boxer.

James Scheibel

A graduate of Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota, he worked as a community organizer, as aide to former mayor Lawrence D. Cohen, as national organizer for the Fred R. Harris Presidential campaign in 1976 and as deputy director for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).

Jason Dickson

Raised in Miramichi, New Brunswick, Dickson has been a supporter of the New Brunswick Liberals and campaigned for them in the 2003 election.

John Hume

In furtherance of his goals, he continues to speak publicly, including a visit to Seton Hall University in New Jersey in 2005, the first Summer University of Democracy of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, 10–14 July 2006), and St Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 18 July 2007.

Joseph Pach

Pach graduated from the University of Toronto with an Artist Diploma in 1947, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from St. Thomas University (New Brunswick) in 1988 and an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of New Brunswick in 1993.

Jost Van Dyke

Jost Van Dyke lies about 8 km to the northwest of Tortola and 8 km to the north of Saint John.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

Her corporate marketing career included stints at the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago and Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Loaded Poets

The band began playing clubs in New Jersey (most notably New Brunswick’s Court Tavern), New York, and Philadelphia, and appeared in filmmaker Paul Devlin’s first documentary, Rockin’ Brunswick (1984), which documented the New Brunswick, New Jersey music scene of the 1980s.

Matt Schnobrich

Schnobrich graduated from Saint Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, earned a bachelor's degree from Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota in 2001, and a master's degree in engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Morrigan Press

Morrigan Press Inc. is a pen and paper roleplaying game publisher headquartered in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation

After the National Council moved its headquarters in 1979 from New Brunswick, New Jersey to Irving, Texas, the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico became the new home of the National Training Center.

New Brunswick Southern Railway

The tracks between Saint John and St. Croix were built as part of the European and North American Railway's "Western Extension" which was part of a project that connected Saint John, New Brunswick with Bangor, Maine, opening in 1869.

New Denmark, New Brunswick

The community is situated in rolling hills east of the Saint John River valley several kilometres south of Drummond.

Philip LeSourd

At the instigation of Karl Teeter and later Ken Hale, he spent time residing among the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy communities in Maine, United States and New Brunswick, Canada.

Prairie Hill, Washington County, Texas

Saint John Lutheran Church was located there, as was the Hafer General Store, the Prairie Hill School, and the doctor's office.

Saint Croix-Vanceboro Railway Bridge

The first railway bridge over the St. Croix River at this location was opened in October 1871 by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and Governor General of Canada Lord Lisgar on the completion of the European and North American Railway (E&NA) between Bangor, Maine and Saint John, New Brunswick.

Saint John Energy

Saint John Energy, formerly known as Power Commission of the City of Saint John and Civic Hydro, is the electrical utility reseller of power purchased from NB Power in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands

At the end of John Grisham's best selling novel The Pelican Brief the heroes escape to St. John: specifically, a small cottage in Maho Bay, along the North Shore of St. John.

Saint John's Abbey

Rev. Rupert Seidenbusch, O.S.B. (1866-1875) Named Bishop of the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Minnesota

Saint John's School of Alberta

The school continued to have an outdoor education program with snowshoe training and races (now shortened from the original one-day, 16-hour races of 50 miles (80 km), canoe trips and other outdoor excursions.

Salt Hill

He had also presided over a constitutional crisis in New Brunswick and had been Governor of British Guiana.

San Juan de la Rambla, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

San Juan de la Rambla (first part Spanish for Saint John) is a municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

São João da Fronteira

Fronteiras (Portuguese meaning Saint John of the frontier) is a municipality in the western part of the state of Piauí in Brazil.

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Whereas the modern saut means simply "(a) jump", sault was also applied to cataracts, waterfalls and rapids in the 17th century, hence the placenames Grand Falls/Grand-Sault, New/Nouveau Brunswick and Sault-au-Récollet on the Island of Montreal in Canada; and Sault-Saint-Remy and Sault-Brénaz, in France.

St John's Gate, Clerkenwell

St John's Gate is one of the few tangible remains from Clerkenwell's monastic past; it was built in 1504 by Prior Thomas Docwra as the south entrance to the inner precinct of the Priory of the Knights of Saint John - the Knights Hospitallers.

Superman's Dead

The first performance of "Superman's Dead" took place on January 13, 1997 at Harbour Station in Saint John, New Brunswick, the first date of the Clumsy tour.

T. Corey Brennan

Terry Corey Brennan (born November 24, 1959) is an associate professor of Classics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, (USA), and was a guitarist and songwriter involved with several bands, most notably the alternative rock band The Lemonheads.

U.S. Virgin Islands Highway 20

Highway 20, or North Shore Road is a road on St. John.

United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company

The old 1795 Albany Street Bridge was removed in 1849, but was later rebuilt.

Vanceboro, Maine

Vanceboro is across the St. Croix River from St. Croix, New Brunswick, Canada, to which it is connected by the Saint Croix – Vanceboro Bridge.

Vineyard Bible Institute

In 2006, VBI took a significantly progressive step forward when Derek and Dr. Quinton Howitt, Derek's academic colleague and lecturer at South African Theological Seminary, constituted a partnership with St. Stephen's University on the East Coast of New Brunswick, Canada, whereby St. Stephen’s became VBI’s degree issuing confederate for their recently developed four year Bachelor of Christian Studies programme.

York Street railway station

Passenger service on the CP Fredericton Subdivision ended on April 28, 1962, forcing Fredericton residents to travel to Fredericton Junction to use the The Atlantic Limited service on the Saint John-Montreal main line.