Turn up at either ramp on the half hour or the quarter hour and the Peninsula Princess will take you across the Kennebecasis River for nothing. The crossing between Millidgeville, in the City of Saint John, and Summerville on the Kingston Peninsula is 1.9 km and about 15 minutes. It is a seasonal service, and the province's timetable for it dates from July 2021.
Department of Transportation and Infrastructure timetable dated 8 July 2021, still the version the provincial ferries page linked in April 2026; 2026 season start and end dates not confirmed; checked 2 October 2026 Government of New Brunswick – Peninsula Princess schedule (PDF, 2021-07-08) · 2026-10-02
Leave Summerville on the hour or the half hour, or Millidgeville at fifteen and forty-five minutes past, and you will usually find the Peninsula Princess loading. That rhythm runs from 06:00 to 23:45 on weekdays and Saturdays and from 08:00 on Sundays. Expect a few gaps: six or seven times a day the ship leaves the Summerville side for Kennebecasis Island instead of Millidgeville.
Do not reach for a wallet. New Brunswick charges nothing on its government ferries, and this one crosses 1.9 km of the Kennebecasis River in about 15 minutes with room for 24 cars. It connects the Millidgeville neighbourhood of Saint John with Summerville, off Route 845 on the Kingston Peninsula.
Check the season before relying on it. The crossing is run by the provincial transportation department from spring into early winter, and we could not find the 2026 end-of-season date in any official document we were able to open. On 511 New Brunswick the Peninsula Princess was listed as in service, with no delays or disruption, at its last update on 5 August 2026.
No fare and no reservation system. Every ferry run by the New Brunswick government crosses without a fare, and the Peninsula Princess is one of that fleet; Tourism New Brunswick lists the crossing as a toll-free service run by the province. That applies to cars, foot passengers and cyclists alike.
| Car and driver | Free |
| Passenger | Free |
| Foot passenger or cyclist | Free |
Government of New Brunswick ferries page (April 2026 copy) and Tourism New Brunswick listing, read 2 October 2026 Government of New Brunswick – Ferries in New Brunswick · 2026-10-02
The Peninsula Princess works across the Kennebecasis River from Sandy Point Road in Millidgeville, on the south bank inside the city, to Summerville on the Kingston Peninsula, a 1.9 km trip. The province lists Kennebecasis Island as the third point the Peninsula Princess serves, and its island runs leave from the Summerville side between the peninsula crossings.
On the peninsula side, follow Ferry Road down from Route 845 to the Summerville ramp. Mornings start on this side: 06:00 on weekdays and Saturdays, 08:00 on Sundays.
On the days the Peninsula Princess also serves Kennebecasis Island, the island trips start from the Summerville side too, so a car waiting for Millidgeville at one of those times will see the boat head off in another direction first.
On the city side the province describes the landing simply as being on Sandy Point Road in Saint John's Millidgeville neighbourhood. Departures from here are on the quarter and three-quarter hour, fifteen minutes behind each Summerville sailing.
The last boat back to the peninsula leaves Millidgeville at 23:45 every day of the week.
The province's 24-hour line for ferry interruptions is 511 inside New Brunswick and 1-800-561-4063 from outside. The 511 New Brunswick site lists the Peninsula Princess and the Kennebecasis Island ferry separately.
At 10:00, 12:00, 15:00, 18:00, 20:00 and 22:00 the ferry leaves Summerville for Kennebecasis Island, not Millidgeville. If you arrive for one of those, the next Millidgeville departure is half an hour later.
The last departures are 23:30 from Summerville and 23:45 from Millidgeville every day; mornings begin at 06:00 except on Sundays, when the first boat is 08:00.
Outside the season, the year-round crossing of the Kennebecasis is the Gondola Point ferry on Route 119, which the province lists as a round-the-clock, all-year service.
The pattern has not changed in years. The timetable the province links is dated 8 July 2021, and a 2023 provincial notice described the same arrangement in words: service from 06:00 to 23:45 daily, from 08:00 on Sunday mornings, daylight-only sailings for the first few weeks of spring until debris and ice are no longer a threat, and a season that in 2023 ran from early April to 6 January 2024 or until weather ended it. That notice also had a separate cable ferry looking after Kennebecasis Island in late spring before the Peninsula Princess took over the island runs.
The Peninsula Princess belongs to a small fleet of free provincial river boats in the Saint John area; further up the Saint John River the seasonal Gagetown ferry to Lower Jemseg works on demand rather than to a timetable.
Yes, as far as the province reports: 511 New Brunswick listed the Peninsula Princess as in service with no disruption at its last update, and past seasons have run into December or early January.
Because at 10:00 the same ship sails to Kennebecasis Island. The same happens at 12:00, 15:00, 18:00, 20:00 and 22:00.
23:45, every day of the week, according to the province's timetable.
08:00 from Summerville and 08:15 from Millidgeville, whereas Monday to Saturday the day begins at 06:00.
No. Provincial ferries in New Brunswick carry no fare at all, so cars, passengers and cyclists ride without paying.
The Gondola Point ferry, also on the Kennebecasis River and also free, has one boat listed by the province as working around the clock, all year.