Saint John is a hard city to love. You practically have to be into born it, like a hereditary Stockholm syndrome. It is the industrial business-end of a province that has often taken it for granted and the result of centuries of questionable city planning choices. It is, however, not without its Victorian charms. It is a city at odds with itself, perpetually torn between modernization and preservation. The Lost City, featuring the photographs of Ian MacEachearn and written by architect John Leroux, documents one such period of aggressive urban renewal within Saint John during the 1960s, indeed one of the most aggressive in Canadian history, and the miscalculation that led to the displacement of an entire community. Continue reading The Lost City: The Photographs of Ian MacEachern and John Leroux on Where Saint John Went Wrong →