DOORS OPEN FREDERICTON Sunday, September 25, 2016, 1 - 4 Pm Start Your Doors Open Experience at Any of the Locations, in Any Order for Guided Or Self-Guided Tours
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DOORS OPEN FREDERICTON Sunday, September 25, 2016, 1 - 4 pm Start your Doors Open experience at any of the locations, in any order for guided or self-guided tours. Please note the locations offering limited guided tours at set times. MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS a proud tradition of providing clean, safe Guided tours from the lobby at 1 pm, 2 pm, designed by Molly Lamb Bobak and crafted drinking water to the citizens of Fredericton 3pm, 4 pm. by Ned Bowes and Hugh MacKinnon of Shades of Light. for over 150 years, visitors are welcome to Each tour lasts approximately 1 hour, 30 tour this new facility and learn about their minutes. Tour numbers are limited (first- The window depicts graduates and drinking water supply and the rich history come, first-served). professors in 3,500 individual pieces of surrounding its development. glass. Gain an insider’s view of behind-the-scene 1 workings of a professional performing arts centre. Ever wonder what that big white box Brydone Jack is on top of the Playhouse or how we make Observatory Fredericton Convention Centre people fly on stage? Want to see where 670 Queen Street famous artists like Leonard Cohen, Buffy First Astronomical Guided Tours at 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm. Ste. Marie, and Bruce Coburn hang out? Observatory in Canada Enter through the main doors on Queen Want to learn more about our building’s Street, and enjoy both art exhibits and behind- history and present day operations? Take 5 Bailey Dr. the-scenes tours! Offered hourly on the hour, 4 one of our guided tours that include front of The William Brydone experience a Chef-guided kitchen tour and house, back stage, catwalks, and conclude Jack Observatory learn the tricks of the trade for producing with an on-stage technical demonstration is the oldest astronomical observatory in delicious meals for up to 1200 guests, or join City Hall of lighting and sound. Canada. the Maintenance Supervisor for a sustainable 397 Queen Street Photography allowed. Children under Constructed of wood, it has an octagonal building management tour. Discover some Council Chamber tour, including City Hall 12 must be accompanied by a parent/ tower especially designed to house its ‘invisible’ initiatives FCC has undertaken Clockworks and History of Fredericton chaperone. No charge. Please note that equatorial telescope. to achieve LEED Silver Certification for Tapestries. Join us at 3pm or 3pm for tours some areas of the tour are not wheelchair excellence in green buildings practices and in FRENCH and 2:30pm or 3:30pm for tours accessible, however we are offering a It was built in 1851 at the initiation of William standards. in ENGLISH. special accessible tour starting at 2pm. Brydone Jack (1819-1886), professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and See a new permanent interpretive exhibit, Built in 1876, Fredericton City Hall is the astronomy, and president of the University “Communities of Fredericton”, throughout oldest City Hall still in use in the Maritime of New Brunswick from 1861 to 1885. the main floor. Enjoy impressive art exhibits Provinces. Fredericton City Hall once Schooled in the traditions of the Scottish from both Ingrid Mueller Art + Concepts and included the City Offices, Council Chamber, universities, he equipped the observatory Gallery 78, and peek into the meeting rooms magistrate’s office, jail, farmers’ market, with the best instruments of the day. In along the way. Staff will be on-hand to answer and an opera house. Today, the building collaboration with Harvard Observatory he questions during this self-guided experience. includes municipal offices and the Council determined the longitude of Fredericton The FCC is also home to three unique Chambers where City Council meets. 7 and other places in New Brunswick, sculptural art pieces. Moon Music 3 is on The 3-tiered fountain in front of City Hall, and corrected errors in the international the main floor, Wolastokuk is located on which was constructed in 1885, is crowned boundary. the 2nd floor, while Memoria Address is by Freddie “the little nude dude”. The Theatre New Brunswick Now a museum, it contains many of the installed outside on the sidewalk between the fountain, along with the City Hall clock, was 55 Whiting Road original instruments, including a 7 ½ foot Convention Centre and The Playhouse. a gift to the City from George Fenety, Mayor Guided Tours every half hour starting at 1 mahogany and brass achromatic telescope, of Fredericton in 1877 and 1884-1888. The pm, last tour at 3:30 pm. transit telescopes as well as memorabilia. original Freddie, which is older than the Statue of Liberty, is now on display inside Come and play at TNB! We’re throwing City Hall. open the doors on one of the industrial Memorial Hall park’s best kept secrets: the Open Space 9 Bailey Dr. Tours given of the Council Chambers, Theatre and the home of Theatre New Memorial Hall including the City Hall Clockworks (a Brunswick, one of Canada’s oldest regional was the fifth prototype for London’s Big Ben) and the theatre companies. Visit the newest theatre university building 2 History of Fredericton Tapestries designed in Atlantic Canada and take a guided tour constructed on by Gertrude Duffie and woven by Dr. Ivan through our wardrobe, production and props Crowell as part of Fredericton’s Bicentennial campus. York Street Fire Station departments to learn how theatre comes celebrations in 1985). to life. It is dedicated 520 York Street to the alumni One of four stations in the city, this building who served in the Great War. A plaque was originally the home of the City’s Police UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK commemorates the 35 who lost their Department head quarters as well as the lives—a number equivalent in size to a fire station. Crews will be on hand to provide CAMPUS graduating class in those days. Chemistry tours of the rescue unit, Rescue Boat, and and chemical engineering departments the 75-foot Quint Truck. Lights and sirens were once located in the building as well as will also be on display. Visitors are asked a dining hall. Convocations were held in the to follow the public parking signs at the auditorium, which was renovated in 1970 entrances. and is used for live theatre, concerts, and a 5 multitude of other purposes. Memorial Hall is currently home to the UNB Art Centre and the Centre for Musical Arts. The Station on York 380 York Street This 1923 heritage property was once a Sir Howard Douglas Hall bustling train station that was a major 3 Bailey Drive 3 hub for transportation in the Maritimes. After service was discontinued in 1993, Sir Howard Douglas Hall, known for the structure fell into major disrepair. many years as the Old Arts Building, was Fredericton E. John Bliss Water Considered by many to be beyond saving, constructed as King’s College during 1826- Treatment Plant the community rallied around this historic 29 through the efforts of the province’s gem and in 2009, it was announced that the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Howard Douglas. 300 Waterloo Row building would be refurbished into a state- Officially opened on January 1, 1829, it is McCord Hall/Ice House Limited guided tours at 1, 2 & 3 pm of-the-art event space with an adjoining the oldest university building still in use on 7 Bailey Dr. (first-come, first-served). liquor store. Though the building has been an English-language campus in Canada. McCord Hall (1851) is named after David heavily renovated, it still carries with it the The E. John Bliss Water Treatment Plant McCord, a writer and Harvard University charm of its earlier years. It provided accommodation for the faculty began providing water to the citizens of and resident students as well as a chapel, administrator, whose generosity made Fredericton in 2009. Although the interior Come by and enjoy some refreshments classrooms and a library. It housed possible its restoration (1963) from contains modern state of the art technology, while you discover the history of this Canada’s first lectures in civil engineering university ice house to student study area the exterior blends with the historic buildings beloved structure. Building is wheel chair in 1854.The building was designated a and saved the building for posterity. in the Waterloo Row neighbourhood. Located accessible. Staff will be on site to answer national historic civil engineering site by This building has been a long-time meeting in the St. Anne’s Point Heritage Preservation questions and to share information about the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers. In space for the writing community. Many Area, the building was constructed to fit in Fredericton’s railway past. the centre of the building is the Great Hall renowned local writers were part of a with its surroundings. which contains portraits of past heads writing group called The Tuesday Night Located on the site of the former Waterloo ARTS of the university and two stained glass Group, also known as The Ice House Gang, Row Esso gas station, the project is a windows, one depicting the Loyalists’ who met here regularly. Hundreds of writers Brownfield remediation success story. petition for the college’s founding and the have read their work here. The contaminated land was cleaned up other portraying Sir Howard Douglas. to an acceptable standard and is now a The Edwin Jacob Chapel located off the Provincial shining example of how land thought to be Great Hall contains portraits of the three unacceptable for future use can be converted ordained Anglican ministers associated with Archives to a landmark for the municipality. the university, the original pews carved up 23 Dineen Drive Constructed for the treatment of the water 6 by generations of students, and plaques The Provincial flowing from the wells in the Queen Square honouring two UNB graduates, Bliss Archives, located area, this plant is a complement to the Carman and Sir Charles G.D.