Saint John River (Bay of Fundy) Saint John River (Bay of Fundy) The Saint John River (; Maliseet: "Wolastoq") is a river, approximately long, located principally in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, but also in and arising from three primary sources in the province of Quebec and the U.S. state of Maine. It forms part of the Canada–United States border in two different stretches along its length. The river drains an area of approximately , of which slightly more than half is located in New Brunswick. Along that portion of the Atlantic shoreline of North America that lies between the St. Lawrence River and the
Straumfjörð Bay (near the southern tip of Nova Scotia) a better candidate. He notices that Samuel de Champlain named this bay ""Baye courante (’Stream Bay’), i.e. the same name as the Norse one"". Larsson further observes, The Bay of Fundy is claimed to have the highest tides in the world. Julius E. Olson (1911) pointed out that Fridtjof Nansen, taking a very sceptical stance, was dismissive of the idea of Vinland being located at Nova Scotia, partly because he held that the birdlife there would not match the extreme abundance which the saga describes on "Straumsey". Olson points, however, to the