DOORS OPEN Sunday, September 22, 2019, 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 Constructed for the treatment of the crowned by Freddie “the little nude dude”. water flowing from the wells in the Queen The fountain, along with the City Hall public parking signs at the entrances. Square area, this plant is a complement clock, was a gift to the City from George to the existing William L. Barrett Water Fenety, Mayor of Fredericton in 1877 and In 2016 the City’s 9-1-1 and Public Safety Treatment Plant on Smythe Street that 1884-1888. The original Freddie, which is Communications Centre moved into the treats the water from the neighbourhoods older than the Statue of Liberty, is now on building from the Police Station. This around Wilmot Park. With a proud tradition display inside City Hall. houses one of six regional 9-1-1 Public of providing clean, safe drinking water Safety Answering Points. Scheduled tours Tours are given of the Council Chambers, to the citizens of Fredericton for over will be offered throughout the day at including the City Hall Clockworks (a 150 years, visitors are welcome to tour 30-minute intervals. prototype for London’s Big Ben) and this new facility and learn about their 1 the History of Fredericton Tapestries drinking water supply and the rich history designed by Gertrude Duffie and woven by surrounding its development. North Side Station and Firefighter Dr. Ivan Crowell as part of Fredericton’s Bicentennial celebrations in 1985. Training Complex & 911 Public Safety Communications Centre 500 Two Nations Crossing Guided tours at 1, 2, 3 pm At a final cost of $10.2 million, this new 2 station and training complex is designed to put Fredericton at the forefront of fire 4 protection and ensure that we have the Fredericton E. John Bliss Water 3 best possible trained and equipped fire Treatment Plant Fredericton Playhouse department. Fredericton City Hall 300 Waterloo Row 686 Queen Street The North Side Fire Station includes Limited guided tours at 1, 2, 3 pm 397 Queen Street apparatus bays, locker rooms, living (first-come, first-served) Council Chamber tour, including Gain an insider’s view of behind-the-scene quarters, offices and training rooms, all workings of a professional performing arts The E. John Bliss Water Treatment Plant City Hall Clockworks and History of situated on a 4.5-acre site that includes centre. Ever wonder what that big white began providing water to the citizens Fredericton Tapestries. a state-of-the-art firefighter training box is on top of the Playhouse or how we of Fredericton in 2009. Although the Join us at 2 pm or 3 pm for tours in tower and related training pads. There make people fly on stage? Want to see interior contains modern state-of-the-art FRENCH and 2:30 pm or 3:30 pm for are burn rooms with flames fueled by where famous artists like Leonard Cohen, technology, the exterior blends with the tours in ENGLISH. propane and synthetic non-toxic smoke Buffy Ste. Marie, and Alan Doyle hang out? historic buildings in the St. Anne’s Point with environmental protection in mind. Built in 1876, Fredericton City Hall is the Want to learn more about our building’s Heritage Preservation Area. The Station is also the new home for the oldest city hall still in use in the Maritime history and present-day operations? Drop Provincial Hazmat Trailers. During Doors Located on the site of the former Waterloo Provinces. Fredericton City Hall once by anytime between 1pm and 4pm to Open, the training tower will be open for Row Esso gas station, the project is a included the magistrate’s office, farmers’ tour the backstage, watch live technical viewing and all the station’s equipment will brownfield remediation success story. market, opera house and even a jail. Today, demonstrations by professionally trained be on display. The City’s Special Operations The contaminated land was cleaned up the building includes municipal offices and theatre staff, and find out how the magic vehicle will also be shown, as well as to an acceptable standard and is now a the council chamber where City Council really happens. the Quint Truck (aerial and pumper truck shining example of how land thought to meets. Photography is allowed. Children under in one), the Tower Truck, and a pumper be unacceptable for future use can be The 3-tiered fountain in front of City 12 must be accompanied by a parent/ tanker. Visitors are asked to follow the converted into a municipal landmark. Hall, which was constructed in 1885, is chaperone. No charge. UNIVERSITY OF CAMPUS comprise the Richard Bennett Hatfield Officially opened on January 1, 1829, it is Archives Complex. the oldest university building still in use on an English-language campus in . in those days. Chemistry and chemical The library’s Beaux Arts, red brick style engineering departments were once was considered unusual in its day. Its It provided accommodation for the faculty located in the building as well as a dining architecture is still of great interest today, and resident students as well as a chapel, hall. Convocations were held in the with its modified Doric columns, its six- classrooms and a library. It housed auditorium, which was renovated in 1970 over-six and modified Palladian windows. Canada’s first lectures in civil engineering and is used for live theatre, concerts, and Just below the building’s front cornice in 1854. The building was designated a a multitude of other purposes. Memorial is the Latin motto Ne Derelinquas me, national historic civil engineering site by Hall is currently home to the UNB Art Domine which translates as “Forsake me the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers. In Centre and the Centre for Musical Arts. not utterly, O Lord”—perhaps the prayer of the centre of the building is the Great Hall 5 students entering the library. The original which contains portraits of past heads Beaverbrook Wing of the Library (a reading of the university and two stained glass McCord Hall/Ice House room) was designed with bird’s-eye windows, one depicting the Loyalists’ 7 Bailey Drive maple and fiddlehead-design wrought iron petition for the college’s founding and the railings. other portraying Sir Howard Douglas. McCord Hall (1851) is named after David McCord, a writer and Harvard University This year, come and see an exhibit The Edwin Jacob Chapel located off the administrator, whose generosity made about the life and work of George Great Hall contains portraits of the three possible its restoration (1963) from Thomas Taylor (1838-1913) of ordained Anglican ministers associated university ice house to student study area, Fredericton. Among the earliest with the university, the original pews thus saving the building for posterity. This wilderness photographers in Canada, carved up by generations of students, and has been a long-time meeting space for from at least as early as 1862 onwards, plaques honouring two UNB graduates, the writing community. Many renowned 7 Taylor travelled the province by canoe, Bliss Carman and Sir Charles G.D. local writers were part of a writing group stagecoach, and other means with Roberts, both of whom made significant called the ‘Tuesday Night Group’, also his cumbersome wet plate camera contributions to Canadian letters. Also known as ‘The Ice House Gang,’ that met Provincial Archives and fragile glass negatives. Taylor’s inside the Chapel is a set of colourful here regularly. Hundreds of writers have 23 Dineen Drive photographs, paintings, artwork, and stained glass windows designed by Molly artifacts will be on display. Lamb Bobak and crafted by Ned Bowes read their work here. The Provincial Archives, located here since and Hugh MacKinnon of Shades of Light. 1967, collects and preserves documents Tour features the storage vault, microfilm relating to all aspects of the history of cold storage, and conservation lab. The window depicts graduates and New Brunswick, including its people and professors in 3,500 individual pieces of its institutions, and to make historical glass. records available for public research. Its records offer a multifaceted view of the province and its people from Acadian and HERITAGE CHURCHES pre-Loyalists periods to the present. The building was once UNB’s library Christ Church from 1931 to 1967, when the Harriet Cathedral Irving Library opened. The building was Corner of 6 renovated with a new addition in 1951 Brunswick and which was financed by Lord Beaverbrook. 8 Church Streets Memorial Hall Named the Bonar Law-Bennett Building, Christ Church the library was named in honour of Sir Howard Douglas Hall Cathedral, the 9 Bailey Drive Andrew Bonar Law, a New Brunswicker 3 Bailey Drive mother church Memorial Hall was the fifth university who was the only non British-born person for the Anglican building constructed on campus. It is Sir Howard Douglas Hall, known for to become Prime Minister of Great Britain, Diocese of dedicated to the alumni who served in and Richard B. Bennett, who was the many years as the Old Arts Building, was Fredericton, was the Great War. A plaque commemorates only New Brunswicker to become Prime constructed as King’s College during 1826- built between the 35 who lost their lives—a number Minister of Canada. The Bonar Law- 29 through the efforts of the province’s 1845 and 1853. equivalent in size to a graduating class Bennett Building and the new repository Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Howard Douglas. HERITAGE CHURCHES throughout the Chapel. From almost 20 St. Dunstan’s metres (64 feet) in the air, amid the stately Catholic It was built under the direction of John hand on its steeple. The spire was elms, three bells have been calling people Church Medley (1804-1892), the first bishop removed in 1974 because of structural to worship for over a century and a half. 120 Regent of the diocese. Fredericton is a city weakening, and the hand (a Fredericton The Withechapel Bell Foundry in London, Street because of the cathedral when Queen Heritage Icon) is now on display in the England, cast three bells, the largest The earliest Victoria gave the city its charter in 1848 Sanctuary. Other features inside the weighing 532 pounds. history of St. despite the population being too small. church include stained glass windows, The low stone wall that surrounds the Dunstan’s It is an excellent example of neo-Gothic including one created by the William chapel is interrupted by a lych-gate. The church starts in architecture designed by Frank Wills and is Morris Studio, pews with doors, a 1951 word ‘lych’ comes from an old English word 1827 with the arrival of Father Michael based on St. Mary’s Church in Snettisham Casavant pipe organ, and the interior décor meaning ‘corpse’. These roofed structures, McSweeney as the first resident priest. in Norfolk, England. The stained glass is designed by noted Canadian artist, the late which date back to sixteenth-century On June 11, 1843, Father William Dollard original as it the carving, most of which Alex Colville. England, were designed to protect the coffin was consecrated as the new bishop, and survived the fire of 1911. The church is from inclement weather during funeral was given an oil painting of the Crucifixion. open daily in July and August for free St. Anne’s services. This particular gate is believed to This painting, which can still be seen in the guided tours. The rest of the year the Chapel of be one of only two such gates remaining in present-day church, hung over the main building is open for all to come in an enjoy Ease North America. altar. During Bishop Dollard’s stay, the a tour with the use of a brochure. It is a “A place of congregation increased in numbers due pleasure to see and welcome all faiths, worship with St. Paul’s to the arrival of Irish immigrant families, creeds and citizens in and beyond the city. free seats” United Church victims of the Irish Potato famine of 1848. 245 National Historic The existing church was consecrated on Wilmot Westmorland Site August 15, 1965. It has a seating capacity United Street 400 George Street for nearly 1000 people and a spire height Church When Bishop (corner of George of 92 feet, six inches from the ground to Corner of King John Medley and York Streets) the foot of the 18-foot high superimposed and Carleton came from Built in 1886, St. cross. An altar of white marble has been Streets England in 1845, he brought architect Frank Paul’s is a fine placed in the sanctuary. There are two Wilmot, originally Wills with him. He set this young man to example of High side altars and two shrines. The baptistery the Fredericton work to design a church that would, in the Victorian Gothic is at the front of the church and can be Methodist Church Bishop’s words, ‘provide a place of worship Revival architecture, fashionable in Canada seen on the right-hand side. (constructed with free seats for the poor and coloured during the second half of the 19th century. 1851-1852), is people of the parish’ who lived on the The style is marked by a bold and vigorous St. Peter’s the last of the outskirts of Fredericton. Consecrated on approach to design, which freely interprets Anglican large frame March 18, 1847, St. Anne’s Chapel of Ease earlier Gothic precedents. Typical stylistic Church churches that dominated the city skyline became Canada’s first free church. In 1853 features in this former Presbyterian Church 2365 Woodstock throughout the 19th century. It was St. Anne’s Chapel of Ease was renamed are the soaring corner tower, intersecting Road designed by Matthew Stead, an English- Christ Church Parish Church until 1962. roof ridges and richly varied details, Nestled among trained architect, and is an example of the Bishop Medley believed that Gothic including the rusticated and polychromed the towering style known as “Carpenter Gothic.” The architecture and Christianity were stonework. The rose window, derived from pseudo-Achaia construction crew erecting the building inseparable, and that the chapel’s French Gothic, indicates a new openness trees along the was comprised of local ships’ carpenters pointed-arch design and stonework were toward non-English designs at this time. banks of the St. whose work on the wooden vaulting synonymous with morality. The grey John River on the outskirts of Fredericton echoes that on the bows of wooden ships. sandstone on the Chapel’s exterior, the lies a little know gem: St. Peter’s Anglican The spire ascended 198 feet and was hard-stone buttresses, and the internal Church. Built by the descendants of topped by a 7-foot upward pointing hand trim came from New Brunswick, as did the Loyalist slaves in 1837, St. Peter’s has carved in wood by Edward Charters. It is butternut that was used for most of the served as a beacon of Faith and hope to believed that Wilmot was the first church interior woodwork. Symbolic of the Trinity, the local community for over 180 years. It in North America to have had a symbolic the number three appears frequently is thought to be the oldest church building of the greater Fredericton area which has St Anthony’s MEDIA been in continuous use since erected in Church the first year of Queen Victoria’s reign. 603 Union St. Peter’s Georgian architecture stands Bell Media Street Radio Station amidst the graves of the famous and not St. Anthony’s Rookwood so famous former worshippers. Unique Church is located Centre for its relationship with the local black on the north population who were members as well side of the St. 206 Rookwood as builders, St. Peter’s graveyard is the John River at Avenue only local instance of intermixed black and Fredericton in Tour a working radio station and see how white burials dating from the 19th century. the former Town of Devon. The church voices get to the airwaves and where The cemetery is also the final resting place building is over 100 years old and is the CTV reporters prepare their TV stories. Rogers tv of Captain Charles Rainsford, the War of only wooden Gothic-style Catholic church Rookwood Centre, formerly known as the 1812 hero of the 104th Regiment of Foot. remaining in Fredericton. Catholicism Rookwood Medical Building, houses three 377 York Street Rainsford’s actions saved 200 of his fellow began here in the 1690’s with the radio stations:103.5 KHJ Real Country Rogers TV has been providing coverage soldiers from starvation and exposure establishment of the capital of Acadia at Variety, 106.9 Capital FM,Ring and 105.3 The of community events, interactive studio during their famous overland march to Ft. Nashwaak (Ft. St. Joseph) when the Fox. shows, and locally produced programming resident priest offered Mass in the fort. Kingston in the winter of 1813. Opened in 1962, the building originally for 50 years. Topics include everything It was not until 1887 that the first priest, provided office space for 30 doctors ranging from sports, politics, music, and more. Brunswick Fr. John Kiernan of Montreal arrived to from general practitioners to dentists. It Volunteers from all walks of life cover all aspects of the process from producing or

serve the predominantly Irish population Fulton Street Baptist was co-founded by Dr. G Everett Chalmers, Canada of northern York County and to minister to hosting their own show to operating the Church Dr. J. GilbertBrookside Turner and Dr. W. Ross Wright. the local Maliseet population. technical equipment. Corner of York By 1982, the building was home to 52 and Brunswick In 1895 the first church and rectory were practicing doctors and had outgrown its See the broadcast television studio, learn aple Streets built. The church was called St. Mary’s, capacity as a medical clinic. InM 1983 the how television programming works and building was sold to Ross Ventures Ltd. This congregation Our Lady of Patronage. This church was have hands-on access to the equipment. Following renovations, the building was re- is descended moved to the back of the lot in 1902 in Tours start everyUnion half hour with the last opened as the Rookwood CentreMain providing 16 from the 13 preparation for the building of the larger tour at 3:30 pm. St. Anthony’s Church. St. Anthony of office space to a variety of professional 105 members who Gibson businesses and three top radio stations. organized the first Baptist Church in the Padua Church was completed in 1906 at area on January 1, 1814. By 1840, the a cost of $21, 652.95. The building was designed by J.C. Dumaresque & Sons of congregation had grown large enough Two Nations Crossing Saint John and Halifax. They also built the Ring 1 to need a new church. The wooden Greenwood oint N.B. Legislature. The wainscoting was P structure built on this site, and dedicated NORTH / NORD 3 Th atters of California redwood. The interior walls St. Mary’s e W in 1840, was destroyed by fire in 1882. Queen Gr 10 4 ee were plastered and painted cream and King n oint Bypass That same year, the congregation laid the 13 P gold. The church was lighted with gas light Fulton BrunswickCanada Cliffe Riverside cornerstone of the fine Neo-Gothic church Brookside 9 fixtures. The ceiling was 31 feet above Woodstock 15 George W that stands today. Built of purple-blue 12 a Barkers 11 Charlotte terloo R the floor. Above the altar was written Rookwood freestone quarried in New Brunswick, it Maple Maclaren Smythe oie d’évitement Barkers “Sante Antoni! Ora Por Nobis Peccatoribus” ork V boasts a beautiful tracery window over Y o estmorland w which is Latin for St. Anthony, Pray for us Church W the main entrance. The Gothic decoration Union Regent Main 16 17 18 Sinners. The exterior of the building was University of the semicircular sanctuary and balcony 105 Argyle painted cream with green trim. Gibson is bathed in the glow of stained-glass Dundonald Beaverbrook 2 windows. Over the years the church has had Prospect Forest Hill extensive renovations but still maintains SOUTH / SUD Woodstock Greenwood oint 5, 6, much of its original charm. Today the Woodstock 14 P 15 Springhill3 Th atters 7, 8 Princess Margaret e WSmythe Queen Gr Kings College structure is in continuous use as a house 10 4 ee King Hanwell n oint Bypass UNB Campus SOUTH / SUD 13 P of worship to a diverse surrounding Brunswick 9 Riverside Woodstock 15 George W Lincoln community. 12 a Barkers Are11 thereCharlotte any other buildingsterloo R that you would like to see included in the tour? Rookwood Smythe oie d’évitement Barkers

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