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DOORS OPEN FREDERICTON
Sunday, September 23, 2018, 1 - 4 pm
Start your Doors Open experience at any of these locations, in any order, for guided or self-guided tours.
Please note that the locations will be offering limited guided tours at set times.
MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS standard and is now a shining example farmers’ market, opera house and
of how land thought to be unacceptable even a jail. Today, the building includes
and a pumper tanker. Visitors are asked for future use can be converted into a municipal offices and the council
to follow the public parking signs at the municipal landmark. chamber where City Council meets.
entrances. Constructed for the treatment of the The 3-tiered fountain in front of City
In 2016 the City’s 9-1-1 and Public water flowing from the wells in the Hall, which was constructed in 1885,
Safety Communications Centre Queen Square area, this plant is a is crowned by Freddie “the little nude
moved into the building from the complement to the existing William dude”. The fountain, along with the City
Police Station. This houses one of six L. Barrett Water Treatment Plant on Hall clock, was a gift to the City from
regional 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Smythe Street that treats the water George Fenety, Mayor of Fredericton
1 Points. Scheduled tours will be offered from the neighbourhoods around Wilmot in 1877 and 1884-1888. The original
Freddie, which is older than the Statue
throughout the day at 30-minute Park. With a proud tradition of providing
North Side Station and Firefighter of Liberty, is now on display inside City
intervals. clean, safe drinking water to the citizens
Hall.
Training Complex & 911 Public of Fredericton for over 150 years,
Safety Communications Centre visitors are welcome to tour this new Tours are given of the Council
facility and learn about their drinking Chambers, including the City Hall
500 Two Nations Crossing
water supply and the rich history Clockworks (a prototype for London’s
Guided tours at 1, 2, 3 pm
surrounding its development. Big Ben) and the History of Fredericton
At a final cost of $10.2 million, this new Tapestries designed by Gertrude Duffie
station and training complex is designed and woven by Dr. Ivan Crowell as part of
to put Fredericton at the forefront of fire Fredericton’s Bicentennial celebrations
protection and ensure that we have the 2 in 1985.
best possible trained and equipped fire
department. Fredericton E. John Bliss Water
The North Side Fire Station includes Treatment Plant
apparatus bays, locker rooms, living 300 Waterloo Row
quarters, offices and training rooms, all Limited guided tours at 1, 2, 3 pm 3
situated on a 4.5-acre site that includes (first-come, first-served)
a state-of-the-art firefighter training Fredericton City Hall
The E. John Bliss Water Treatment Plant
tower and related training pads. There
began providing water to the citizens 397 Queen Street 4
are burn rooms with flames fueled by
propane and synthetic non-toxic smoke of Fredericton in 2009. Although the Council Chamber tour, including
with environmental protection in mind. interior contains modern state-of-the- City Hall Clockworks and History of Fredericton Playhouse
The Station is also the new home for the art technology, the exterior blends with Fredericton Tapestries. 686 Queen Street
Provincial Hazmat Trailers. During Doors the historic buildings in the St. Anne’s Join us at 2 pm or 3 pm for tours in
Point Heritage Preservation Area. FRENCH and 2:30 pm or 3:30 pm for Gain an insider’s view of behind-the-
Open, the training tower will be open for scene workings of a professional
viewing and all the station’s equipment Located on the site of the former tours in ENGLISH.
performing arts centre. Ever wonder
will be on display. The City’s Special Waterloo Row Esso gas station, the Built in 1876, Fredericton City Hall is what that big white box is on top of the
Operations vehicle will also be shown, project is a brownfield remediation the oldest city hall still in use in the Playhouse or how we make people fly
as well as the Quint Truck (aerial and success story. The contaminated Maritime Provinces. Fredericton City Hall on stage? Want to see where famous
pumper truck in one), the Tower Truck, land was cleaned up to an acceptable once included the magistrate’s office, artists like Leonard Cohen, Buffy Ste.
Marie, and Alan Doyle hang out? Want to UNIVERSITY OF the auditorium, which was renovated
learn more about our building’s history in 1970 and is used for live theatre,
and present-day operations? Drop by NEW BRUNSWICK CAMPUS concerts, and a multitude of other
anytime between 1pm and 4pm to tour purposes. Memorial Hall is currently
the backstage, watch live technical home to the UNB Art Centre and the
demonstrations by professionally trained Centre for Musical Arts.
theatre staff, and find out how the 7
magic really happens.
Photography is allowed. Children under McCord Hall/Ice House
12 must be accompanied by a parent/ 7 Bailey Drive
chaperone. No charge.
McCord Hall (1851) is named after David
McCord, a writer and Harvard University
administrator, whose generosity
6 made possible its restoration (1963)
from university ice house to student
study area, thus saving the building 9
Brydone Jack Observatory for posterity. This has been a long-
First Astronomical Observatory in time meeting space for the writing Provincial Archives
Canada
5 community. Many renowned local 23 Dineen Drive
5 Bailey Drive writers were part of a writing group
The Provincial Archives, located here
Fredericton Convention Centre The William Brydone Jack Observatory called the ‘Tuesday Night Group’, also
since 1967, collects and preserves
is the oldest astronomical observatory known as ‘The Ice House Gang,’ that
670 Queen Street documents relating to all aspects of
in Canada. Constructed of wood, it has met here regularly. Hundreds of writers
Guided Tours at 1:30, 2:30, 3:30 pm the history of New Brunswick, including
an octagonal tower especially designed have read their work here.
its people and its institutions, and to
Enter through the main doors on Queen to house its equatorial telescope. It was make historical records available for
Street to join a guided tour or explore built in 1851 at the initiation of William public research. Its records offer a
our 36,000 square feet of meeting space Brydone Jack (1819-1886), professor multifaceted view of the province and its
on your own. Tour the permanent of mathematics, natural philosophy people from Acadian and pre-Loyalists
interpretive exhibit “Communities of and astronomy, and president of the periods to the present.
Fredericton” throughout the main floor, University of New Brunswick from 1861
where the meeting rooms are named This year, come and see the exhibit
to 1885. Schooled in the traditions of the
after communities that amalgamated “County Treasures: 50 Years of
Scottish universities, he equipped the
with the City of Fredericton in 1973. Sifting for Gold”, celebrating the 50th
Enjoy impressive art exhibits from Ingrid observatory with the best instruments
anniversary of the opening of the
Mueller Art + Concepts, Gallery 78m ang of the day. In collaboration with
Archives. You can also watch modern
Gallery on Queen both upstairs and on Harvard Observatory he determined 8 tintypes being taken and view and
the main floor. the longitude of Fredericton and other exhibit of historic tintype photos from
places in New Brunswick, and corrected Memorial Hall the Archives’ collections. Tour feature
The FCC is also home to three unique errors in the international boundary.
sculptural art pieces. Moon Music 3 is 9 Bailey Drive the storage vault, microfilm cold
on the main floor, Wolastokuk is located Now a museum, it contains many of Memorial Hall was the fifth university storage, and conservation lab.
on the 2nd floor, while Memoria Address the original instruments, including a 7 building constructed on campus. It is The building was once UNB’s library
is installed outside on the sidewalk ½-foot mahogany and brass achromatic dedicated to the alumni who served in from 1931 to 1967, when the Harriet
between the Convention Centre and The telescope, transit telescopes, as well as the Great War. A plaque commemorates Irving Library opened. The building
Playhouse. memorabilia. the 35 who lost their lives—a number was renovated with a new addition
equivalent in size to a graduating class in 1951 which was financed by Lord
in those days. Chemistry and chemical Beaverbrook. Named the Bonar Law-
engineering departments were once Bennett Building, the library was named
located in the building as well as a in honour of Andrew Bonar Law, a New
dining hall. Convocations were held in Brunswicker who was the only non-
British-born person to become Prime 1853. It was built under the direction The spire ascended 198 feet and was inseparable, and that the chapel’s
Minister of Great Britain, and Richard of John Medley (1804-1892), the first topped by a 7-foot upward pointing hand pointed-arch design and stonework
B. Bennett, who was the only New bishop of the diocese. Fredericton is carved in wood by Edward Charters. It were synonymous with morality.
Brunswicker to become Prime Minister a city because of the cathedral when is believed that Wilmot was the first The grey sandstone on the Chapel’s
of Canada. The Bonar Law-Bennett Queen Victoria gave the city its charter church in North America to have had exterior, the hard-stone buttresses,
Building and the new repository now in 1848 despite the population being too a symbolic hand on its steeple. The and the internal trim came from New
comprise the Richard Bennett Hatfield small. It is an excellent example of neo- spire was removed in 1974 because of Brunswick, as did the butternut that was
Archives Complex. Gothic architecture designed by Frank structural weakening, and the hand (a used for most of the interior woodwork.
The library’s Beaux Arts, red brick Wills and is based on St. Mary’s Church Fredericton Heritage Icon) is now on Symbolic of the Trinity, the number
style was considered unusual in its in Snettisham in Norfolk, England. The display in the Sanctuary. Other features three appears frequently throughout
day. Its architecture is still of great stained glass is original as it the carving, inside the church include stained glass the Chapel. From almost 20 metres (64
interest today, with its modified Doric most of which survived the fire of 1911. windows, including one created by feet) in the air, amid the stately elms,
columns, its six-over-six and modified The church is open daily in July and the William Morris Studio, pews with three bells have been calling people
Palladian windows. Just below the August for free guided tours. The rest doors, a 1951 Casavant pipe organ, and to worship for over a century and a
building’s front cornice is the Latin of the year the building is open for all to the interior décor designed by noted half. The Withechapel Bell Foundry in
motto Ne Derelinquas me, Domine come in an enjoy a tour with the use of Canadian artist, the late Alex Colville. London, England, cast three bells, the
which translates as “Forsake me not a brochure. It is a pleasure to see and largest weighing 532 pounds.
utterly, O Lord”—perhaps the prayer welcome all faiths, creeds and citizens The low stone wall that surrounds the
of students entering the library. The in and beyond the city. chapel is interrupted by a lych-gate.
original Beaverbrook Wing of the Library The word ‘lych’ comes from an old
(a reading room) was designed with English word meaning ‘corpse’. These
bird’s-eye maple and fiddlehead-design roofed structures, which date back
wrought iron railings. to sixteenth-century England, were
designed to protect the coffin from
inclement weather during funeral
HERITAGE CHURCHES services. This particular gate is believed
to be one of only two such gates
remaining in North America.
12 St. Paul’s
United Church
St. Anne’s Chapel of Ease National Historic
11 “A place of worship with free seats” Site
245 Westmorland Street 400 George
Wilmot United Church When Bishop John Medley came from Street
Corner of King and Carleton Streets England in 1845, he brought architect (corner of
Frank Wills with him. He set this young George and York
Wilmot, originally the Fredericton
man to work to design a church that Streets)
Methodist Church (constructed 1851-
1852), is the last of the large frame would, in the Bishop’s words, ‘provide Built in 1886,
churches that dominated the city skyline a place of worship with free seats for St. Paul’s is a
10 throughout the 19th century. It was the poor and coloured people of the fine example of High Victorian Gothic
designed by Matthew Stead, an English- parish’ who lived on the outskirts of Revival architecture, fashionable in
Fredericton. Consecrated on March 18, Canada during the second half of the
Christ Church Cathedral trained architect, and is an example of
the style known as “Carpenter Gothic.” 1847, St. Anne’s Chapel of Ease became 19th century. The style is marked by a
Corner of Brunswick and Church Canada’s first free church. In 1853 St.
Streets The construction crew erecting the bold and vigorous approach to design,
building was comprised of local ships’ Anne’s Chapel of Ease was renamed which freely interprets earlier Gothic
Christ Church Cathedral, the mother carpenters whose work on the wooden Christ Church Parish Church until 1962. precedents. Typical stylistic features in
church for the Anglican Diocese of vaulting echoes that on the bows of Bishop Medley believed that Gothic this former Presbyterian Church are the
Fredericton, was built between 1845 and wooden ships. architecture and Christianity were soaring corner tower, intersecting roof
ridges and richly varied details, including 1840, the congregation had grown MEDIA was re-opened as the Rookwood Centre
the rusticated and polychromed large enough to need a new church. providing office space to a variety of
stonework. The rose window, derived The wooden structure built on this site, Bell Media professional businesses and three top
from French Gothic, indicates a new and dedicated in 1840, was destroyed Radio radio stations.
openness toward non-English designs at by fire in 1882. That same year, the Station
this time. congregation laid the cornerstone of Rookwood
the fine Neo-Gothic church that stands
Rogers tv
Centre 377 York
St. Dunstan’s today. Built of purple-blue freestone
quarried in New Brunswick, it boasts a 206 Rookwood Street
Catholic Avenue
Church beautiful tracery window over the main Rogers tv
entrance. The Gothic decoration of the Tour a working radio station and has been
120 Regent
semicircular sanctuary and balcony see how voices get to the airwaves providing
Street
is bathed in the glow of stained-glass and where CTV reporters prepare coverage of
The earliest windows. their TV stories. Rookwood Centre,
history of St. community
formerly known as the Rookwood events, interactive studio shows,
Dunstan’s church
starts in 1827 with the arrival of Father
St. Peter’s Medical Building, houses
Ring three radio and locally produced programming
Michael McSweeney as the first resident
Anglican stations:103.5 KHJ Real Country Variety, for almost 50 years. Topics include
priest. On June 11, 1843, Father William Church 106.9 Capital FM, and 105.3 The Fox. everything from sports, politics,
Dollard was consecrated as the new 2365 Woodstock Opened in 1962, the building originally music, and more. Volunteers from all
bishop, and was given an oil painting Road provided office space for 30 doctors walks of life cover all aspects of the
Fulton
Brookside
of the Crucifixion. This painting, which Nestled among ranging from general practitioners process from producing or hosting their
can still be seen in the present-day the towering to dentists. It was co-founded by own show to operating the technical
church, hung over the main altar. During pseudo-Achaia Dr. G Everett Chalmers, Dr. J. Gilbert equipment.
Bishop Dollard’s stay, the congregation trees along Turner and Dr. W. Ross Wright. By See the broadcast television studio,
increased in numbers due to the arrival the banks of the St. John River on the 1982, the building was home Maptole 52
of Irish immigrant families, victims of outskirts of Fredericton lies a little learn how television programming
practicing doctors and had outgrown works, have hands-on access to the
the Irish Potato famine of 1848. know gem: St. Peter’s Anglican Church. its capacity as a medical clinic. In 1983 equipment, andUmeet the behind-the-
The existing church was consecrated on Built by the descendants of Loyalist MainVentures nio
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the foot of the 18-foot high superimposed It is thought to be the oldest church
cross. An altar of white marble has building of the greater Fredericton Ring Two Nations Crossing
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