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Main Street

A view down the centre of Main Street with cars and trucks on the roadway and three-storey wooden buildings on either side, some with business signs including Fransblow’s Market.

Louis Michelson Archives, Saint John Jewish Historical Museum

Main Street connected the North End of Saint John to the uptown and was lined with wooden buildings with stores at the street level and apartments on the upper floors. This was the centre of the Jewish neighbourhood from the 1920s to the 1960s.