Immigrants, cholera and the Saint John Sisters of Charity, 1854-64.

Saint John, New Brunswick, situated on the Bay of Fundy at the mouth of the river from which it takes its name, was visited early in the 16th and 17th century by explorers and fishermen. We know with certainty t hat Champlain entered the estuary of the river on the feast of St. John the Baptist in 1604 and so named it. An enterprising outpost of New England in prerevolutionary days, it became a thriving centre when the Loyalists came in the spring and summer of 1783 and within two years it was an incorporated city, the first in British North America.