Abbreviations used
Date February 9 1884
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Sun
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
.. 'It was in 1840', continued the philosopher, 'or therabouts' that George CRAIG set up a foundry at the corner of Main and Charlotte streets... In 1845 he imported a large quantity of iron plates from England which were manipulated at his foundry and afterwards sent to Navy Island (story about his iron steamer and his demise from a boiler explosion) (see original 'Some Events That Occurred in St. John Forty Years Ago')