Stonehammer Geopark Gets More Than Half A Mill Funding

The Stonehammer Geopark which stretches all the from the Lepreau Falls to Norton and down to St. Martins is getting more than half a million dollars in funding from the provincial and federal governments. 

Much of the money will be used to let people know here and elsewhere what's on offer.

Stonehammer Chair Bill Merrifield says most people who live here have no idea of the significance of the history and heritage with rocks at the Reversing Falls that are a billion years old.

Merrifield says under the Reversing Falls Bridge, two continents slammed together with the part on the outer side towards the Harbour coming from Africa and colliding with a piece of South America.
 
Saint John will be hosting a UNESCO conference with delegates from around the world in 2014.