page_title: History of Saint John, New Brunswick
section_title: 1920s
hierarchical_section_title: History of Saint John, New Brunswick / French colony / 20th century / 1920s
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: canmachinerjanjun1913toro (find matches) Title: Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1913) Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Subjects: Machinery Machinery Machinery Publisher: Toronto MacLean-Hunter Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: Algoma University, Trent University, Lakehead University, Laurentian University, Nipissing University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: carshop which measures 600 x 200 ft. Herewill be built both wooden and steel cars.The steel car bay is served by a 10-tontraveler and the wood car bay by a 20-ton traveler equipped with a 5-ton aux-iliary hoist. The wheel and machine shop is on theeast side of the midway next to the forgeshop, and is served by a 10-ton traveler.The machine tools here include three42-inch car wheel boring machines, twodouble axle lathes, two 42-inch coachwheel lathes, and other first-class equip-ment. There are two coach shops arrangedon either side of a transfer-table pit andparallel with the midway, across whichthe cars pass on their way to the paintshop. The latter is a spacious and welllighted buildine measuring 250 x 126 it.Alongside it is the planing mill. 220x125ft., equipped with the most modernwood-working machinery. All machin-ery is beinu supplied to very rigid speci-fications and will he of the same Ligh-class as that already installed in thelocomotive shops. 16 CANADIAN MACHINERY Volume IX Text Appearing After Image: January 2, 1913 CANADIAN MACHINERY 17 Development of St. John, N.B., as an Ocean Port By CT.R. It is abundantly evident that the next decade will witness therise into prominence of this old-time city as the Dominions leadingport on the Atlantic Coast for winter freight and passenger service.Some there are who predict for it the flattering cognomen of TheLiverpool of Canada, and if railroad, dock and harbor developmentsare a criterion, we are disposed to agree with the prophecy. THE Dominion Government, early in1912, gave the contract for the con-struction at St. John, N.B., of two milesof docks, a dry dock and ship repairingplant, costing $12,000,000, to the NortonGriffiths Co., Canada, Ltd. future, the owners of one such havingan agreement with the Norton Griffithsfirm to come to St. John when the dockand harbor work is sufficiently ad-vanced. The C. P. R. already have terminal Again, it is said that the C. N. R. ispractically certain to make St. John itsAtlantic terminus. Three Tran Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Predated by the Maritime Archaic Indian civilization, the area of the northwestern coastal regions of the Bay of Fundy is believed to have been inhabited by the Passamaquoddy Nation several thousand years ago, while the Saint John River valley north of the bay became the domain of the Maliseet Nation. The Mi'kmaq also ventured into the territory and named the area ''Měnagwĕs'', which means "where they collect the dead seals."
context_section_description: At a time of rural protest in Canada from Ontario to the Prairies, the Maritime Rights Movement was a broad-based protest movement during the 1920s, demanding better treatment from Ottawa. This movement was centered in Saint John, where the city's business leaders politicized the economic crisis and solidified their economic and political leadership.
caption: Saint John harbor as it was projected in 1913 to look in the near future.
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