| | | | Canada's first: - Biscuit factory - established in 1801
- Board of Fire Insurance Underwriters - established in 1865
- Boys and Girls Club of Canada - founded in 1903
- Brain surgery using innovative, portable equipment - Saint John Regional Hospital, 2006
- Charter bank - Bank of New Brunswick, 1830
- Common-law (farmers) market - Saint John City Market, 1876
- Female Canadian Golf Champion - Miss Mabel Thompson, 1902
- Female commercial air pilot - Mrs. Tony Shelfoon (nee Daphne Peterson)
- Fire insurance company - Munso Jarvis, established 1801
- Incorporated city - founded by the United Empire Loyalist, 1783 & created by Royal Charter, 1785
- Industrial exhibition, 1851
- Miss Canada - Mrs. Harold Drummie (nee Winnie Blair), 1923
- National Historic Streetscape - Prince William Street, designated in 1981
- Paved street - Prince William Street
- Publically funded high school - Saint John High School
- Public museum - New Brunswick Museum (originally called the Gesner Museum), 1842
- Public playground - started by Miss Mabel Peters. This playground is known as the Allison Ground Playground in Rockwood Court.
- Soda crackers - developed by T. Rankine amp; Sons, Church Street, 1823
- Use of anaesthetic during an operation - December 17, 1847
- Vocational school - located on Douglas Avenue the school still operated today as Harbourview High School
- YWCA - established by Mrs. Agnes A. Blizzard, 1870
The British Empire's first: - Knights of Pythias
- Minister of Health of the British Empire - Hon. W.F.Roberts, M.D.
- Penny newspaper - "Saint John News", established by George E Fenety, 1838
- Woman to sit as a member on the Board of Health - Mrs. R. J. Hooper
The World's first: - Boy Scout Apple Day - organized by Eli Boyaner on January 30, 1931
- Kerosene oil - discovered by Dr. Abraham Gesner (founder of the New Brunswick Museum)
- Orchestra to accompany a silent moving picture (on the North American continent) - by Walter Golding in The Old Nickel Theater, May 1907
- River cable ferry (invented by William Pitt) - installed on the Kennebecasis River, early 1900s. The river systems surrounding theSaint John Community are still criss-crossed by free cable and non-cable ferries today.
- Police union - formed in Saint John in 1919
- Postage stamp album - invented by Robert Reid, 1853. The original is now at the Collector`s Club in New York City.
- Quarantine station (in North America) - Partridge Island greeted sick and dying Irish emigrants arriving to the New World with inhospitable conditions.
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