Evening Times Globe, Saint John, N.B., July 31^st, 2001

Times Globe Staff

Four murals in memory of the Paris Crew will grace Saint John’s uptown, starting tomorrow.

The murals, one of each member of the famous Saint John rowing team, will be hung in the parking lot behind the Union Club at the corner of Princess and Canterbury streets at 11:30 a.m.

Anna Stroud, a Grade 12 art student at Rothesay High School, created the 4 by 8 feet acrylic murals. She has been working at the Rothesay Living Museum this summer, helping to develop a Web site called "Rowing: The Legacy of Renforth."

"We’re tying it together - the historical legacy of the rowing champions the Paris Crew and the later development of the Kennebecasis Rowing Club," explained art teacher Brian Perkins, noting that the heirs to the legacy of the Paris Crew, the New Brunswick rowing team, will be heading to the Canada Games next month.

The New Brunswick Canada Games rowing teams, the mayors of Greater Saint John, local MLAs, MPs, representatives of Enterprise Saint John, the Board of Trade and the parking commission are expected to attend tomorrow’s unveiling.

The murals were completed in cooperation with the parking commission, Fundy-Royal MP John Herron, and Communities in Bloom.

In 1867, the Saint John rowing team was dubbed the Paris Crew after taking the World Amateur Rowing Championship in Paris by storm, stunning the European press and its English and French competitors.

Team members included Robert Fulton, George Price, Samuel Hutton, and Elijah Ross, Canada’s first international champions.