| With a three hour crossing from Digby in the
afternoon, we elected to camp in Saint John. The campsite is in a park on a
hill overlooking the city and the marshalling yard. Canadian National
country. |  |
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In the market square are more wood statues. This one commemorates Madame
Francois Jacquelin La Tour who defended the town her husband helped found in
1631 from rival French trader D'Aulnay Charnissay whilst her husband Charles
La Tour was away in Boston. She eventually lost and died three weeks later
of a broken heart. She became known as the Heroine D'Acadia. |
| There is a small museum (free) which we had a little
browse around . I did spot this ancient stove. The secret to this part of
the world is the wood burning stove. |  |
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Outside of course this is the land of the bear and the moose, the latter
here cast in bronze and standing taller than us. I seem to remember the feet
being bigger on the one I saw in the middle of the road. Perhaps this is a
young one. |
| I suppose this would be a modern day totem pole. The
style of the figures looks very much like those we saw in Ottawa. But I was
unable to establish who the artist was. |  |
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This magnificent model, over 6 feet high was in the window in the shopping
precinct. It is of the 'Marco Polo' . A full rigged ship with a modified
clipper hull, she was built at Saint John in 1831 by James Smith. In 1852
under the captainship of 'Bully' Forbes she achieved immortality by
achieving the fastest passage ever from Liverpool to Australia. As the
fastest ship in the world she drew attention to the New Brunswick shipyards.
She ran ashore during a gale in 1883 at Cavendish in PEI. |
| It was festival time in Saint John and this was the
supporting act. The lad was a mean fiddler. Unfortunately he had not made a
CD so we just sat and enjoyed his music. |  |
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Some folk are just plain SCARY! |
| More of the stylised wooden statues coming out of a
wall in the shopping arcade. |  |
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A statue of Samuel Leonard Tilley who was Lieutenant Governor of New
Brunswick in 1873-8 and 1885-93 and one of the founding fathers of Canadian
Federation. He is reputed to be the originator of the word Dominion in the
Dominion of Canada from Psalm 72.8 |
| Today Saint John is a significant port particularly
for tankers at the Irving refinery which is Canada's largest, producing over
300,000 barrels of product per day. A third of this is exported to the north
eastern USA representing 42% of Canadian petroleum exports. That is 45% of
the US imports of RFG (Reformulated Gasoline) It produces some of the
cleanest fuels in the world. The workers use bicycles to move round the
plant. |  |
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We walked into the town and returned past the pond at the entrance to the
2200 acre Rockwood Park where the campsite is located. |
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