St. John, embracing the adjacent town of Portland, chief commercial city of New Brunswick, on the estuary of St. John River, 277 m. NW. of Halifax; has an excellent harbour; shipbuilding, fishing, and timber exporting are the chief industries; has a great variety of prosperous manufactures, such as machine and iron works, cotton and woollen factories, &c.; does a good trade with the West Indies.
Population (circa 1900) given as 39,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
St. John * St. Johns