A port in eastern Canada; the largest city in New Brunswick; Also called: St. John.
Largest city of New Brunswick, Canada, on the Saint John River; It is a fishing port and has shipbuilding, timber, fish-processing, petroleum, refining, and textile industries. Founded by the French as Saint-Jean 1635, it was taken by the British 1758.
After the American Revolution, several thousand Loyalists from the US settled here 1783, and it was the first Canadian city to be incorporated 1785.