There's not much left of Saint John's Haymarket Square — a forlorn-looking area in what used to be called the city's old east end. (Julia Wright / CBC)Market and fuel yardFew records were kept of the earliest uses of Haymarket Square. Costumed club with 'celestial powers'A strange group called the Haymarket Square Polymorphian Club took on the responsibility for cleaning up the square in the 1870s. The elaborate statue erected by the Haymarket Square Polymorphian Club to commemorate the centennial of the landing of the Loyalists in Saint John. Economic double-whammyAfter playing a pivotal role in Saint John in the sixties, Haymarket Square was hit with a double-whammy the following decade.

Source: CBC News January 03, 2019 10:52 UTC