Saint John River New Brunswick Canada The Saint John River is four hundred and fifty miles long and draws it's headwaters in northern Maine and Quebec. The river drains an area of twenty one thousand square miles and is the second longest river on the Atlantic coastline between the Saint Lawerence and the Mississippi rivers. It empties into the Bay of Fundy at what is now the city of Saint John, named Wolastoq by the Maliseet people which means good and beautiful river we get the present day name from the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who sailed into its mouth on    Saint John the Baptist day  in 1604

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