The Irvings: Whitegate’s secretive new owners

At first glance, Cork would seem the perfect place for the Irving family to get their feet wet on the eastern side of the Atlantic.

Irving Oil’s home city of Saint John (not to be confused with St John’s, Newfoundland) lies on the southern coast of the small Canadian province of New Brunswick.

Saint John often plays second fiddle to the provincial capital of Fredericton, and it has its own distinctive character, climate and attitude.