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    Saint John West: Volume II
    Saint John West: Volume II
    Saint John West: Volume II
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    Saint John West: Volume II

    By David Goss and Fred Miller

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    Saint John West Volume II adds to and continues the story of the West Side's struggle for existence. Always dependent on seasonal industry, initially fishing and shipbuilding and later the railway and seaport, the area has seen high and low points in its 200-plus years of existence. At one time, residents imagined times would become so prosperous that King Street would be transformed into a major boulevard paved with gold and Courtenay Hill would be the site of a huge, decorative cathedral dedicated to the inner spirit. In reality, the fish have stopped coming, the wooden ships are no longer built, and the Canadian Pacific railway that provided hundreds of jobs and promised such hope has left the Maritimes. Changing trade patterns and political favours to keep the St. Lawrence open to Montreal has devastated the winter-port operations. Many Saint John West residents have had to close their businesses and move on. Others were displaced when the construction of the Harbour Bridge tore three full blocks out of the heart of the community in 1968. Still others have chosen to remain, and today, though little industry exists, the area is still vibrant and working hard to hold together some vestige of the pride of former times.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateJun 8, 1999
    ISBN9781439626979
    Saint John West: Volume II
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    David Goss

    David Goss and Harold E. Wright have authored over two dozen books on local and community heritage. The collection of photographs in East Saint John explores this largely overlooked area of their city.

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      Saint John West - David Goss

      Wittrien

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      FROM THE HILLS AND HIGHER: AN OVERVIEW

      Whether it was called Carleton, West Saint John, or Saint John West, and whether the people who lived there were referred to as Algereens, Blue Rockers, Carletonites, or most commonly, West Siders, those who inhabited the streets below City Line on the western peninsula of Saint John had immense pride in the area of the city from which they came and were very proud to be called any of the above names.

      Those outside of the area may not have understood that a true West Sider had to live between the harbour and the City Line. That’s because it was not an official boundary until 1953, when residents west of City Line, in the area that was known as Beaconsfield, and Fairville decided to form their own city. Tradition says they counted their citizens, and, having come up short of the needed 10,000, added on the 1,700 patients housed in the Provincial Hospital for the Insane, and thus had the numbers for the new city, which they called by the old name for the parish, Lancaster.

      We begin our journey with a picture of the port in 1946, possibly one of the most prosperous eras the area would enjoy. Certainly no one at that time could see the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the changes to come with airline travel and containerization that would drastically effect the port operation in Saint John West.

      This sketch is titled Saint John from Carleton, but it might be better titled, Carleton from Tower Hill, as it depicts Martello Road and Tower Street and the Millpond of Saint John West much more prominently than the streets of the centre of Saint John, which are across the half-mile-wide harbour.

      This is a later photo than the sketch above, taken sometime between 1900 and 1931, but again it features Martello Road leading down to the edge of the Millpond. Note the board sidewalks. Some of the Maritime vernacular-style and mansard-roofed-style houses still stand in 1999. Just beyond the Millpond was the wooden Immigration Building through which many new Canadians passed before the Second World War. Its brick replacement still stands, but immigrants do not use it as they no longer arrive by ship.

      This aerial picture was taken over Martello Tower shortly after the Millpond was filled in as part of the Port redevelopment from 1927 to 1934. In the foreground of the picture is the area known as Beaconsfield, spoken of in the introduction. Below that is Brooks Ward of Saint John West. Across the harbour in the middle cluster is the South End of Saint John, and on the horizon is Courtenay Bay and Crouchville, now Saint John

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