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Started in 1879 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the company is now headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick. [ 1 ] In March 2023, Crosby’s received a $800,000 investment from the provincial and federal governments.
The 1914 Saint John street railway strike (sometimes called the Saint John street railwaymen's strike) [216] was a strike by workers on the street railway system in the city which lasted from July 22 to 24, 1914, with rioting by Saint John inhabitants occurring on July 23 and 24. The strike was important for shattering the image of Saint John ...
The Irving Whale is a Canadian barge that sank off the north coast of Prince Edward Island, while en route from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Bathurst, New Brunswick, taking 4,200 tonnes of fuel oil down with it. [141] It was laid down at the Saint John Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Ltd., Saint John in 1966. It carried oil for JDI from 1967 until it ...
Saint John saw major urban development between the 1950s to the 1970s. [35] Following the Second World War, plans were made to improve Saint John by city leaders. According to a 1946 study, Saint John's waterfront area was determined to be one of North America's worst slums. Several parts of the city required improvement, as indicated by ...
Buildings in five cities are included in this list; Halifax, Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton, and St. John's, each having buildings at least 60 meters tall. The tallest of these high-rise buildings is One 77, which is 32 storeys and 111 m (364 ft) in height, which, when it topped out in 2023, supplanted the previous 52-year record-holder, The ...
An Irish famine ship which was holed by ice between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Havana Canada: 26 April 1906 A wooden schooner that was accidentally rammed by the steamer Strathcona off Point Pleasant Park. Hungarian United Kingdom: 19 February 1860 A steamship wrecked off Cape Sable Island, with the loss of 205 lives. Imo Norway: 6 December 1917
Prior to the establishment of the market at its current location, the city of Saint John operated several public markets. [3] The government of New Brunswick enacted a law permitting a public fish market, located in the Water Street slips to be operated by the city of Saint John, in 1855. [4] Another was a hay market, run at the head of King ...
St. John to Have Biggest Drydock. The drydock to be erected at the City of Saint John, N.B., will be one of the largest in the world. The contract has already been let to the St. John Drydock and Shipbuilding Company by the Department of Public Works, Ottawa. The length of the new dock will be 1,150 feet and its width at the bottom 125 feet.