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Identifier: frederictonnewbr00fred Title: Fredericton, New Brunswick and the St. John River : for the tourist and sportsman. Year: 1918 (1910s) Authors: Fredericton Tourist Association Subjects: Publisher: Fredericton, N.B. : Fredericton Tourist Association Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto


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Text Appearing Before Image: our hours, required over forty days. Fredericton was then a city of 1,300souls, and the fathers of the hamlet were quaintly attired in stovepipe hats and kneebreeches. All that part of the town which is back of the old cemetery was a wilderness,where the partridge drummed on the hollow log and the rabbit raced around on moonlitnights. The block of land enclosed by Regent, King, Carleton and Brunswick streets wasa grazing-ground for cattle. Where the Church Hall now stands was a pond, and many abrace of snipe or plover was bagged there by the stately sportsman of that time. Passengertraffic in the summer between Fredericton and St. John was carried on in sloops. All thebusiness of the city was located on Queen Street. The cornerstone of the Anglican cathedral was laid October 15, 1845, by Lieut.-Gov.Sir William Colebrooke. The building was finished and consecrated in 1853, and has beenenriched in various ways since then. The entire nave is an exact copy of the church at • Page Five r

Text Appearing After Image: st. Leonards on the st. john river, from van buren, MAINE FREDERICTON NEW BRUNSWICK • CANADA Snettisham, England. The main body of the church is of domestic stone, the windowsettings of Caen stone. There are 15 bells in the tower, the tenor weighing 2,800 pounds.The chime in use was adopted from that of Trinity Church, New York. When thecathedral was being built, gifts were received from all parts of the world, including TrinityChurch, New York, which gave 100 guineas toward the cost of the east window. At Bishops-cote may be seen a prayer book, on the fly-leaf of which is written in a boyish hand, Albert,Prince of Wales, Fredericton, 5th August, i860; in a plain but somewhat effeminate hand,Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 2d June, 1861; in a dashing, reportial style, Arthur, Dukeof Connaught, 8th September, 1869; and in the dainty, angular characters peculiar to hersex, Princess Louise, 10th August, 1879. In 1896 a cenotaph, with recumbent effigy ofthe founder of the cathedral, the Righ


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