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The Old Staging Days

Beacon
Oct 24/1907
In the Old Staging Days.
When the Coach Ran from Saint John to St. Andrews. St. John Globe, Old-Time Sketches:--The mail to St. Andrews commenced operations on Monday, 20th of November 1837. There were twenty horses on the line, making five teams for distance of sixty-two miles. A very handsome new coach, called The Victoria, was exhibited in the city and the editor says of it: I we are rightly informed, this was the first appearance of the mail coach and four in the city of Saint John. The coach ran from St. Andrews on Monday, Wednesday and Friday leaving at 6 o’clock, and from Saint John on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, leaving at 7 o’clock. Fare each way 25 s. Way fares: St. Andrews to Magaguadavic 7s. The line connected with the US mail at Robbinston, from which a stage started every morning for the west at 9 o’clock. L. L. Copeland was agent of the proprietors. Directors of the company: Hon. James Allanshaw, Harris Hatch, James Campbell, of SA; Charles Loring, SG; Cyrus Stockwell, Edmund Kaye and Moses H. Perley, Saint John.