former Lantic Sugar site (Saint John)

Site of Lantic sugar refinery erected in 1912 for the Atlantic Sugar Company to produce sugar and sugar products from cane sugar imported by ship from the West Indies. At one time the 13 ac. complex featured ten main buildings and assorted accessory structures, most notably a ten storey panhouse, ten storey filter house and a boiler house. Other buildings included a raw sugar storage building, a melt house and a refined sugar warehouse.

In 1984 the refinery was acquired by Montreal based St Lawrence Sugar, which operated the plant until 2000, when it consolidated its operations in Montreal. Over 300 jobs were lost at the time of closing.

The buildings were demolished and the property transfered to the City of Saint John in 2004. In 2008, City council agreed to sell the property to Irving Oil to help facilitate the development of Irving's proposed World Headquarters at Long Wharf which involved Irving swapping the Lantic site with the Saint John Port Authority for Long Wharf. After some delay, Irving cancelled the proposed development citing changed economic conditions.

The future of the former refinery site remains undetermined.