Saint John, New Brunswick's Firsts
Canada's oldest incorporated city, founded by the United Empire Loyalist, 1783. Home of Moosehead Breweries. Home of the late industrialist K.C.Irving, self made billionaire and one of the riches men in the world. Location of the 1985 movie, Children of a Lesser God. The birthplace of Walter Pidgeon and Donald Sutherland and childhood home of Louis Mayer. Home of the Canadian Hockey Association's Atlantic Centre of Excellence. Home of Canada's largest oil refinery. Home of the second largest bilingual workforce in New Brunswick. Ranked as Canada's Premier City for Business by the Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine and The Best Business City in Atlantic Canada by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business for its pro-business attitude. DUMP BOX FOR TRUCK INVENTOR: Robert T. Mawhinney Saint John, New Brunswick (Patent No. CA 203,004, Aug...