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
Bay of Fundy Virginia.) Approximately seventy-five years after Port Royal was founded, Acadians migrated from the capital and established what would become the other major Acadian settlements: Grand-Pré, Chignecto, Cobequid (present-day Truro, Nova Scotia) and Pisiguit (present-day Windsor, Nova Scotia). There were numerous naval battles as well as naval attacks on the settlements surrounding the Bay of Fundy. Port Royal was raided numerous times during the Acadian Civil War. After the English took over this area, they expelled the many Acadians who refused to take a loyalty oath to their rule. During the American Revolution in the late eighteenth century, American privateers raided