Saint John, New Brunswick

Our next stop was St. John, home of the famous reversing falls.  We waited for a couple of hours for high tide when the river reverses and flows upstream.    

Still flowing downstream

After a while we crossed the bridge and waited on the other side.

On this side there was a large sculpture called the Memory Vessel in the shape of a canoe and commemorating five people who died on the St. John River.

Eventually we got tired of waiting and it started raining so we drove over to the Carleton Martello Tower National Historic Site.  Where we took no pictures. The tower was closed for repairs but it had a nice little museum.  It was built during the War of 1812 and was occupied in both the first and second world wars.  I learned about the Fenians who plotted to invade Canada as part of the Irish uprising against Britain.  

We returned to the falls but the water was still running in the same direction.  Next we went downtown to Market Square.

It was pretty quiet on a Sunday afternoon.  It looks to be set up for cruise ship traffic and there were no cruise ships docked today.

Fun instagrammable art

We camped at the municipal campground in Rockwood Park, mostly permanent residents from the looks of it.  (Also no photos.)

Monday morning we drove back downtown and checked out the City Market, the oldest continuously operated market in Canada (since 1785 though not at this location, built in 1876). Again no photos!  It's a cool old building and has a great bakery/cafe and a good butchers.

A block away was the Loyalist House, built in 1812 by the Merrit family, who continued to live there until 1958.  Like the City Market it's one of the few buildings that survived the Great Fire of 1877.

Dining Room

Kitchen

Cool Tools

Original Wallpaper

Bedroom