This episode, released close to International Women’s Day (March 8), recalls an important political reform cause in Saint John’s past...

Two weeks before Great Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, the Saint John central business district was the site of another type of...

Part 1: In 1968, Saint John made aviation history as the starting point for Canada’s first skyjacking: an Air Canada Vickers Viscount...

In Saint John, as in other cities, residents’ sense of geography is based on streets and neighbourhoods, but few stop to ponder why...

In this last episode of 2024, we explore how Christmas was celebrated in Saint John in during the Victorian era (1837-1901). In this...

Little remains to show that the controversial American military leader, Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), lived in Saint John for several...

In this episode, Mark and Greg have a conversation with Saint John author, Heather McBriarty, on the subject of underaged soldiers in the...

Listeners have already learned that Saint John, a city founded by American Loyalists in the 1780s, was transformed by British immigration...

The York Point Riot of 1849   This episode examines one of the darker chapters in the history of New Brunswick and what would become...

In the summer of 1854, Saint John and the neighbouring town of Portland were hit by cholera, which ended up killing between 1100 and 1500...

Initially settled as Parrtown in 1783 by several thousand Loyalists who emigrated from British-controlled New York City, Saint John was...