Barbour's General Store

Barbour's General Store was a museum and tourist hub in Saint John, New Brunswick.

It was an authentic 19th-century general store building, preserved and used to recreate a Victorian-era educational experience for visitors.

He sought to remedy the lack of awareness of local history for his granddaughter and other children of the area by establishing a museum in the centre of Saint John.

[6] The general store was recreated with historic artifacts that would have been seen on the shelves of a local shop of the era.

Goods such as clothing, shoes, hats, preserved tobacco, medicines, household items such as tools, lamps, boardgames and irons were on display, as well as local items such as Surprise Soap, made in the nearby town of St. Stephen, and Crosby's Molasses, made in Saint John.