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HISTORIC SITES IN NEW BRUNSWICK 



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stood at Joes Point; one (still standing) was at the upper end of 

 the town close to the shore, and another stood just behind the present 

 light-house. 



Another series of block-houses built at this time were those along the 

 main road from Fredericton to St. Andrews. These are clearly shown on 

 Bonnor's map of 1820 and some others. They are said locally, and pro- 

 bably correctly, to have been designed to intercept deserters making their 

 way from the garrison at Fredericton towards the United States. One of 

 them stood on the east bank of the Magaguadavic, at the end of the 

 bridge on the main road. It was on a little hill exactly at the end of 

 the bridge, and its cellar is still to be seen 

 and the site is well known locally. An- 

 other stood near Fredericton Junction. At 

 this place, however, two sites of block- 

 houses are known, as shown on the accom- 

 panying Map No. 47, though iu neither 

 case can any remains be seen.^ It is alto- 

 gether likely that one of them, that on 

 the north side of the river, was built in 

 1T85, on the recommendation of Governor 

 Carleton, who in that year recommended 

 the building of a barracks sufficient for a 

 battalion, near the falls of the Oromocto 

 (Archives, 1895, N. B., 4). The other, 

 south of the river, said to have stood about 

 where Mr. John Seely's house now is, is 

 clearly that shown on Bonnor's map of 



1820, though incorrectly, for the topography of his map is here veiy 

 erroneous. It was built in 1813, as shown by the Eeport of 1825. Bon- 

 nor's map would imply that it stood in the angle between Back Creek 

 and the south branch of the Oromocto, but nothing is known locally of 

 the occurrence of a block-house there, as I have found by personal 

 inquiry, and, moreover, the old road to St. Andrews did not go that way 

 at all. It is, however, correctly shown on Lockwood of 1826. The site 

 assigned on the Map No. 47 places it at the junction of the two roads 

 from Fredericton and Oromocto to form the single old road (now aban- 

 doned) to St. Andrews. 



The old block-house at Edmundston belongs much later. It was 

 bvxilt in 1841, in connection with the "Aroostook War." Its site is well 

 known locally, and its cellar can be seen on the rocky hill just south of 

 the mouth of the Madawaska. 



Fort Dufferin, at St. John, was built in recent years. I have no 

 evidence that any earlier defence work stood on that site, though one 

 would expect something of that sort from its position (see page 277). 



Map No. 47.— Sites of Block- 

 houses NEAR Fredericton 

 Junction. 



1 As I am informed by a resident, to whom I am also indebted for the map. 



