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Originally Posted by bridgeoftea
I'd love to see some photos / footage of the port in that era!
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My dad used to work on some of the ships that brought in flour from the Caribbean... was in the late 60's or 1970's,
he was young as 14 working on those ships, as they could get into the smaller areas on the holds of those ships easier than the adult men... which would never be allowed today.
My grandfather was a CP policeman at the port and they lived on the west side... we have a bunch of super 8 film from back then. I've been meaning to get around to viewing them, but I don't have a working projector, and those film digitizers are a bit too pricey.
Here's from pics (probably shoulda just did a IMGUR slideshow, but oh well
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1970
There's some really amazing, high quality aerial photographs of the port from even further back, and can be seen in much greater details than these below, but that part of the NB Museum site is down right now.
Here's one in low quality i believe from the 30's or early 40's.
I'll try and access the full quality images later and post them on the main Canada forum in the
Canadian Skylines of the Past thread. I posted one from 1929 in there recently, if you want to have a look.
Also, RIP to Bob Boudreau... he took many amazing pics of Saint John from the 1960's and onwards. He passed away earlier this year.