Greater Saint John
Greater Saint John is a metropolitan area surrounding Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

Greater Saint John is a metropolitan area surrounding Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. It had a population of 144,543 in 2025. The census metropolitan area of Saint John consists of 17 municipalities and parishes in addition to the City of Saint John.
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Worth seeing in and around Greater Saint John
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Rockwood Park
Rockwood Park is an urban park in Saint John, New Brunswick established in 1894. It is 2,200 acres in size, with ten lakes and 55 trails and footpaths.
3.6 km · city park located in Saint John, New Brunswick · Wikipedia
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Getting to Greater Saint John
- Airports
- Halifax / Stanfield (YHZ), 206 km
- Halifax → Greater Saint John206 km · quickest by road, 5h 56m · C$49–65
- Quebec → Greater Saint John1989 km · quickest by air, 15h 41m · C$750–1,110
- Montréal → Greater Saint John1761 km · quickest by air, 15h 23m · C$710–1,050
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Greater Saint John
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Greater Saint John. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you're travelling from southern Nova Scotia, your best bet is to take Bay Ferries from Digby.
- Get inSaint John can also be reached by ferry coming from Digby, Nova Scotia.
- Get inAs of 2024, it is operated by Bay Ferries Ltd.
- Get inParking is available at the Saint John and Digby ferry terminals.
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