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The Great Saint John Fire of 1877: The rise, destruction and recovery of Canada’s leading port city by Mark Allan Greene

November 21, 2022 by Heather McBriarty

What most of us don’t know is this: it was the single most devastating urban fire in the 19th century in North America, eclipsing the more famous fires in Boston and Chicago.

Mill Rat by Tom Halford

June 28, 2024July 2, 2021 by Alison Manley

Tom Halford’s chapbook of prose-poems, Mill Rat is an ode to the Loyalist city of Saint John, New Brunswick.

The literary figure of the flâneur is a symbol of urban observation. Made popular in the 19th century, the flâneur is a man of leisure who wanders through the city and watches as he walks. He attempts to understand life in the city and the feelings of alienation that can come from such a life. …