Saint John is a
city in
New Brunswick (the one in
Canada, not
New Jersey). Located at the
mouth of the
Saint John River on the
Bay of Fundy it is the
largest city in New Brunswick.
Saint John was founded in
1785 by
British Loyalists fleeing
retribution for supporting
England in the
Revolutionary War and was
home for a while to
infamous traitor Benedict Arnold, though apparently we didn't like him much either, I guess nobody likes a
fink.
Saint John is a major
seaport especially in the
winter when the
St. Lawrence River and
Seaway are frozen over. Other
industries include
oil refining,
pulp and
paper production,
communications,
tourism,
brewing,
brush manufacture and
food production.
Saint John is home to
Irving Oil (and all of its
subsidary companies),
NBTel,
Moosehead breweries,
Crosby's Molasses and
T.S. Simms.
Saint John also gave birth to
Red Rose Tea, the company that would eventually become
Thomas J. Lipton.
The
University of New Brunswick has a
campus here as does the
New Brunswick Community College.
We aslo have something called
Reversing Falls which occurs when the
tide in the Bay of Fundy rises higher than the level of the Saint John River causing the water to appear to run uphill at the point where the
river drains into the
bay.
Not to be
comfused with
St. John's,
Newfoundland.