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Saint John Harbour, where the two rivers meet the Bay of Fundy, is a deep water port and ice-free all year long. Partridge Island is in the harbour. The city land area is 315.96 km 2 (121.99 sq mi), and the metropolitan area covers 3,509.62 km 2 (1,355.07 sq mi). [27]
The mouth of the Saint John River was first discovered by Europeans in 1604 during a reconnaissance of the Bay of Fundy undertaken by French cartographer Samuel de Champlain. The day upon which Champlain sighted the mighty river was St. John The Baptist's Day, hence the name, which in French is Fleuve Saint-Jean. The city has the same name in ...
City of St. John was a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1917. History
John of God (1495–1550), Portuguese friar; founder of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God John of Ávila (1500–1569), Spanish Jewish converso priest, missionary and mystic John Payne (martyr) (1532–1582), English priest and martyr (one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales)
After 1914, the counties of Saint John and Albert were joined, and the riding was known as St. John—Albert. It returned two Members of Parliament until 1935. In 1966, Albert County was moved to the Fundy—Royal riding and the district became known as Saint John—Lancaster.
John Waterhouse Daniel (1845–1933) – physician, politician; Mayor of Saint John, member of Canadian Parliament and Senator; Don Darling – former mayor of Saint John; Joseph A. Day (born 1945) – former politician, senator; James De Mille (1833–1880) – novelist, professor at Dalhousie University [27]
Saint John County (2016 population: 74,020 [1]) is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada. The city of Saint John dominates the county. Elsewhere in the county, tourism is focused around the Bay of Fundy .
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