New Brunswick - Exploring Saint John

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New Brunswick - Exploring Saint John

It was a fine day for ducks...rain, wind and more rain... but we ventured into Saint John anyway. It’s an old city. Samuel de Champlain and company first arrived at the mouth of the St. John River on the feast day of St. John the Baptist and named the area in his honor. After the influx of ~14,000 British Loyalists who settled in the area in 1783 following the British defeat in the American Revolution, the city was officially established by Royal Charter as Saint John, Canada’s first incorporated city.

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The Port au Port Peninsula and On to Port aux Basques

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The Port au Port Peninsula and On to Port aux Basques

The Port au Port peninsula juts out like a hook into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It looked appealing and it was on the way, so why not explore?

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St. John’s, Newfoundland’s Big Smoke

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St. John’s, Newfoundland’s Big Smoke

As we headed downtown, we were in search of St. John’s Jellybean Row. We drove down the city’s oldest street, Water Street, along the harbor. After some reading, I had learned that Jellybean Row or the Jellybean. Houses were not a specific street, but rather were many of the houses on the downtown hillside. Duckworth Street was a good place to begin. The brightly candy-colored row houses weren’t hard to find. They were everywhere!

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