Introducing Saint John
Saint John is the economic engine room of the province, a gritty port city with a dynamism missing from the demure capital. The setting is spectacular – a ring of rocky bluffs, sheer cliffs, coves and peninsulas surrounding a deep natural harbor where the mighty St John and Kennebecasis Rivers empty into the Bay of Fundy. It can take a bit of imagination to appreciate this natural beauty, obscured as it is by the smoke stacks of a pulp mill, oil refinery and garden variety urban blight. The city is surrounded by an ugly scurf of industrial detritus and a tangle of concrete overpasses. But those who push their way through all this to the historic core are rewarded with beautifully preserved redbrick and sandstone 19th-century architecture and glimpses of the sea down steep, narrow side streets.
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Last updated: Mar 2, 2009
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RE: Toronto - Nova Scotia - PEI - Quebec City and back again - Possible??
by wastle 29 July 2011
Either do an Atlantic Canada loop (fly to Halifax as a base) or an Ontario/Quebec loop (use Toronto as a base). Atlantic Canada loop.…
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Re: Toronto to Nova Scotia
by fanjoy 17 July 2011
I have done this trip many times (but from Ottawa) and here is my favourite itinerary: - Toronto to Quebec City and visit old Quebec…
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RE: Halifax advice anyone?
by krisp131 10 July 2011
Hi Chris, For cheap food, there's plenty of sandwich and pizza shops, as well as some street food lots of options that a few minutes…
