. Fredericton, New Brunswick and the St. John River : for the tourist and sportsman. . ar for the temporary use of that mountain for street pur-poses, it is certain that they would have taken the warpath against the New England settle-ments with redoubled rage and fury. In 1768 the Acadians at St. Annes, as well as at other points along the river, were givenfree passes to Madawaska, good for the single trip, by the order of King George. At thattime the whole of New Brunswick, under the name of the County of Sunbury, was a mereadjunct to the little Province of Nova Scotia. Of course, such a fat
. Fredericton, New Brunswick and the St. John River : for the tourist and sportsman. . ar for the temporary use of that mountain for street pur-poses, it is certain that they would have taken the warpath against the New England settle-ments with redoubled rage and fury. In 1768 the Acadians at St. Annes, as well as at other points along the river, were givenfree passes to Madawaska, good for the single trip, by the order of King George. At thattime the whole of New Brunswick, under the name of the County of Sunbury, was a mereadjunct to the little Province of Nova Scotia. Of course, such a fatuous attempt on thepart of the tail to wag the dog could not prevail, and in 1786 New Brunswick was created aseparate province. The first governor of the province was Thomas Carleton. He convened in the latteryear the first General Assembly of the Province at St. John, but having previous to thismade a casual visit to Fredericton (or St. Annes), he seems to have had no further use forSt. John. He at once fixed upon Fredericton as the capital, and the General Assembly met Page Three. NEW BRUNSWICK PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT BUILDING, AND LAW COURTS FREDERIC TON NEW BRUNSWICK • CANADA there for its third session, in a little building which is still standing near the present QueenHotel, on July 18, 1788. Two years before, in this same building, known as the KingsProvision Store, the first sermon ever preached in Fredericton was delivered to an audienceof sixty or seventy persons by the first rector of the city, Rev. Samuel Cooke. It is remarkedby Mr. Cooke that in 1790 the inhabitants of Fredericton number 400, of whom 100attended church, but many of ye common sort preferred to go a-fishing. What a vividflashlight photograph of the primitive Celestial! At the lower end of the city is nowa field where once stood the house of Benedict Arnold, the famous reversible patriot andprototype of the political contortionist of the present time. m There were still living not so long ago old resi
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