Saint John: An Industrial City in Transition

The Community University Research Alliance (CURA) and the NB Museum offers three evenings of presentations about recent discoveries on the theme - Saint John: An Industrial City in Transition. This week's talk on Marsh Creek, Little Water Clears Us of This Deed will be presented by Graeme Stewart-Robertson. The series continues in February. The presentation will be held January 26, 2006, 7:00pm in the Mary Oland Theatre in the NB Museum, masked Square.

The Human Development Council is one of five partners in the CURA research project analysing the Industrial-Post-Industrial transition currently underway in Saint John, New Brunswick. It is documenting how a medium-sized industrial city of a 120,000 people is reshaping its economic base, sustaining its cultural life, and protecting and conserving its natural environment.

The Community-University Research Alliance program focuses on four broad and interrelated themes that will address many aspects of the Industrial City in Transition. Research themes include:

• The People of Saint John: A Community and Neighbourhood Profile
• The Environmental History of Saint John
• Urban and Rural Planning and the Changing Shape of Greater Saint John
• Cultural Representations of Greater Saint John

The Human Development Council is one of five partners involved in this research project. Others include:

• UNB Saint John
• Atlantic Coastal Action Program
• New Brunswick Museum
• Peninsula Heritage Inc.

Photo: Joe Godin