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Uptown Saint John has a reputation for strange characters — and the 16 sandstone figures carved on the Chubb's Corner building are no exception. How they got there, and who they're supposed to represent, have been a mystery since 1878. The truth has to do with the rebuilding of Saint John after the Great Fire of 1877, and the artists and politicians that helped shape an era in the history of Canada's oldest incorporated city.