SAINT JOHN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
1 Market Square
Saint John, New Brunswick
E2L 4Z6
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| Saint John Free Public Library |
Phone: 506-643-7224
To find us:
Eastbound
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On Highway 1, take exit 122 Saint John Center.
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Merge onto Hwy 101-Main Street
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Continue on Saint Patrick Street.
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Turn right on Union Street
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Turn right on Smythe Street.
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The library is located in Market Square.
Westbound
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On Highway 1, take exit 125 towards RTE 100/Hwy 100 Crown Street.
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Turn Left on Crown Street.
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Turn right on Union Street.
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Turn left on Smythe Street.
Hours of Operation:
We are closed on Sundays.During Winter/Fall/Spring the Saint John Free Public Library is open:
Monday 9am – 5pm,
Tuesday & Wednesday 10am – 5pm,
Thursday & Friday 10am – 9pm,
Saturday 9am – 5pm.
We are closed on Sundays.
We are closed on Sundays.During Winter/Fall/Spring the Saint John Free Public Library is open:
Monday 9am – 5pm,
Tuesday & Wednesday 10am – 5pm,
Thursday & Friday 10am – 9pm,
Saturday 9am – 5pm.
We are closed on Sundays.
During the summer we are open:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 9am – 5pm
Thursday & Friday 9am – 9pm
We are closed on weekends.
The library is publicly funded by the New Brunswick government and the municipality. Donations are welcome.
We have 17 full/part-time staff and several volunteers and student assistants. The City librarian is Joann Hamilton-Barry.
Photocopying and microfilm printouts are available on site.
Fees are:
Fees are:
Photocopying:
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81/2 x 11 paper, 81/2 x 14 paper .20 cents a sheet.
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11 X 17 paper .25 cents a sheet.
Microfilm printouts .50 cents per sheet.
There are restaurants nearby as well as the New Brunswick Museum.
Paid parking is available but we are also conveniently located on the bus route.
The Saint John Free Public Library has the following available that would be of interest to anyone studying their Irish New Brunswick history or genealogy:
Alms House Records (Saint John)
Burial Permits: 1889 – 1919
Census (New Brunswick): 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901
Churches: Typescripts (F44 – F45c)
Custom House Port Returns: 1816, 1833 – 1834, 1837, 1838
Death Registers and Certificates
Douglas Avenue Christian Church Fonds
Fitzpatrick’s Funeral Home Records: 1889 – 1980
Freeman Certificates
Graeme Somerville Collection: 1843 – 1884
Land Petitions: 1783 – 1857
Marriage Records (Dates vary by county)
Newspapers By Place
Newspapers By Title
Parish Registers (Dates vary by parish)
Passenger Manifests for Ships, 1900 – 1908
Poll Books
Sunbury County, 1830 – 1857
York County, 1856 – 1865
Sunbury County Marriage Certificates, 1824 – 1828
Probate Records (Dates vary by county)
Saint John City Directories: 1857, 1863 – 1982
(1982 to date in book form)
Saint John Register of Voters
Shipping Records (Port of Saint John) 1878 -1949
Teachers’ Petitions and Licenses (RS 655)
Telephone Directories, New Brunswick: 1889 to date
Vestry Minutes – Trinity Anglican Church (catalogued material)
PERMANENT LOAN MICROFILM FROM NEW BRUNSWICK GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY:
Births, Late Registration Of: 1810 – 1887
Census: 1901
Cholera Deaths
Churches:
Annals of the See of New Brunswick: A diary in the handwriting of Bishop Medley
Dutch Valley & Hammond Mission
Lorneville: South Bay United
Saint John:
Calvin Presbyterian
Calvin Presbyterian
Carleton United
Centenary-Queen Square United
First Free Presbyterian
Germain St. Baptist
St. Andrew’s Kirk
St. Andrew’s & St. David United
St. David’s Kirk
St. George’s Anglican
St. John Presbyterian
St. John’s (STONE) Anglican
St. Jude’s Anglican
St. Luke’s Anglican
St. Mary’s Anglican
St. Stephen Presbyterian
Trinity Anglican
Simonds Anglican
West Side Kirk
St. Martins:
Methodist, United and Presbyterian
Records for St. Martins, Black River,
Gardner’s Creek, Bains Corner
St. Martins Anglican
Sussex and Norton:
Anglican circuit
Upham:
Upham Anglican
Weldford (Kent County):
St. Paul Parish
Probate Records and Files
(Saint John County)
(Kings County)
Provincial Hospital Records
Teachers’ School Returns
All items located in the Reference Archives must be requested at the Reference Desk and must be handled with gloves. No photocopying or scanning of Reference Archives material is allowed. Digital photographs without a flash are allowed. Internet access must be reserved at the Reference Desk.
Also please check the Vision catalogue, www.gnb.ca/publiclibraries for a list of books available in the New Brunswick Public Library System.