Saint John
- proper noun
- /seɪnt dʒɒn/
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San Juan
- Rather, as we shall see, the Irish Catholics in Quebec City present a fairly diversified occupational structure compared to their fellows in cities with majority Protestant populations, such as Saint John and Hamilton.
- Saint John, New Brunswick
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At Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, we have more than 50 surgeon-years of experience with delayed orbital floor fracture surgery.
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In his study of Saint John, New Brunswick, T.W. Acheson notes "the disintegration of the Saint John Irish nation into Roman Catholic and Protestant communities after 1840."
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In Saint John, New Brunswick, for example, the majority of the police officers were "good Protestants," Irish and otherwise.
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At Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, we have more than 50 surgeon-years of experience with delayed orbital floor fracture surgery.
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A good example is the Londonderry firms of J. & J. Cooke and William McCorkell, who had agents in Philadelphia, New York, Quebec, and Saint John, New Brunswick.
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In his study of Saint John, New Brunswick, T.W. Acheson notes "the disintegration of the Saint John Irish nation into Roman Catholic and Protestant communities after 1840."
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The Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company was established with three chartered steamships, and in 1859 the company won a year-long contract for a Galway-Saint John, Newfoundland run.
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In a society so thoroughly Catholic as that of Quebec City, the Irish Catholics were not excluded, as Acheson has shown for the group in Saint John, nor concentrated at the bottom of the social ladder, as Katz has demonstrated for the Irish Catholics of Hamilton.
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In Saint John, New Brunswick, for example, the majority of the police officers were "good Protestants," Irish and otherwise.
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About a two-hour drive north of St. Andrews, along scenic Highway 1, lies Saint John, site of the earliest Loyalist landings in New Brunswick.
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A port city in eastern Canada and the largest city of New Brunswick
Surface Forms
Morphology
Saint + John
The compound combines 'Saint' (a holy or canonized person) with the proper name 'John', so a learner who knows both words will understand it denotes a holy person named John. While specific biblical details (which John is meant) require cultural/religious knowledge, the basic referential meaning is directly compositional and cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Saint John (city) took its name from the nearby river, which explorers had already called Saint John, so the town kept the same name. That is why the name refers to the port city today.