Saint John History Day

What's in Your Closet?

Saint John 225 presents

'Saint John History Day'

Sunday Oct. 17th 11 am - 3 pm

Market Square Atrium & New Brunswick Museum

FREE

A Historic Show & Tell

Bring your family treasures to Market Square & we'll photograph them and upload them to City Stories, our online history project!

Saint John 225 wants to hear your stories about life in Saint John.

City Stories: Our People's History is an online history site created by…you!

This is the place where we gather to tell our stories and on Sunday Oct. 17 we're having a special event to celebrate Saint John's history.

Anyone with a connection to Saint John is invited to join us at Market Square to share images, memories and insights about the Saint John region.

City Stories topics

Characters and Personalities

Cultural Traditions

Destination Saint John: Stories of Arrival

Family Stories

Fun and Games

Holidays and Celebrations

On the Job

School Days

The Creative Side

The Great Outdoors

The Old Neighbourhood

The Political Arena

The Sporting Life

War, Peace and Those Who Serve

Our volunteers will upload all the submissions to the City Stories website

Your family memento might make its way into 'Shards of Time', the commemorative public art sculpture by Powning Designs that will be installed on Harbour Passage!

Peter Powning and the team from Powning Designs, including UNB Saint John historian Greg Marquis, will be onsite and may select some of the treasures for inclusion in 'Shards of Time'.

This beautiful public art sculpture will pay tribute to the many generations who have lived here, where the St. John River meets the Bay of Fundy.

The main structure is a representation of a pottery bowl that is considered typical of the Late Maritime archeological era, representative of the Paleo-Indian peoples who are believed to have lived in the area as long as 11,000 years ago.

The vessel, which will weigh approximately six tons and is roughly 12 feet in diameter, 18 feet wide and 10 feet high, is fragmented - or in shards. It will appear to be half-buried, recreating the feeling of an archeological site.

Encircling these shards will be a cast bronzed band that will contain imprints of objects from Saint John's past.

When completed, it will be installed at the top of the harbour, at a point along Harbour Passage where the path splits underneath the Harbour Bridge, just west of Fort LaTour and east of the HMS Brunswicker.

Learn more at www.saintjohn225.com - What's On This Month