DOORS OPEN FREDERICTON Sunday, September 24, 2017, 1 – 4 Pm Start Your DOORS OPEN Experience at Any of These Locations, in Any Order, for Guided Or Self-Guided Tours
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DOORS OPEN FREDERICTON Sunday, September 24, 2017, 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 chamber where City Council meets. water flowing from the wells in the The 3-tiered fountain in front of City In 2016 the City’s 9-1-1 and Public Queen Square area, this plant is a Hall, which was constructed in 1885, Safety Communications Centre complement to the existing William is crowned by Freddie “the little nude moved into the building from the L. Barrett Water Treatment Plant on dude”. The fountain, along with the City Police Station. This houses one of six Smythe Street that treats the water Hall clock, was a gift to the City from regional 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering from the neighbourhoods around Wilmot George Fenety, Mayor of Fredericton 1 Points. Scheduled tours will be offered Park. With a proud tradition of providing in 1877 and 1884-1888. The original throughout the day at 30-minute clean, safe drinking water to the citizens Freddie, which is older than the Statue North Side Station and Firefighter intervals. of Fredericton for over 150 years, of Liberty, is now on display inside City Training Complex & 911 Public visitors are welcome to tour this new Hall. Safety Communications Centre facility and learn about their drinking water supply and the rich history Tours are given of the Council 500 Two Nations Crossing surrounding its development. Chambers, including the City Hall Guided tours at 1, 2, 3 pm Clockworks (a prototype for London’s At a final cost of $10.2 million, this new Big Ben) and the History of Fredericton station and training complex is designed Tapestries designed by Gertrude Duffie to put Fredericton at the forefront of fire 2 and woven by Dr. Ivan Crowell as part of protection and ensure that we have the Fredericton’s Bicentennial celebrations best possible trained and equipped fire Fredericton E. John Bliss Water in 1985. department. Treatment Plant The North Side Fire Station includes 300 Waterloo Row apparatus bays, locker rooms, living Limited guided tours at 1, 2, 3 pm quarters, offices and training rooms, all (first-come, first-served) 3 situated on a 4.5-acre site that includes The E. John Bliss Water Treatment Plant a state-of-the-art firefighter training began providing water to the citizens Fredericton City Hall 397 Queen Street tower and related training pads. There of Fredericton in 2009. Although the 4 are burn rooms with flames fueled by interior contains modern state-of-the- Council Chamber tour, including propane and synthetic non-toxic smoke City Hall Clockworks and History of art technology, the exterior blends with Fredericton Playhouse with environmental protection in mind. the historic buildings in the St. Anne’s Fredericton Tapestries. The Station is also the new home for Point Heritage Preservation Area. Join us at 2 pm or 3 pm for tours in 686 Queen Street the Provincial Hazmat Trailers. During FRENCH and 2:30 pm or 3:30 pm for Guided tours from the lobby at 1, 2, 3, Located on the site of the former DOORS OPEN, the training tower will be tours in ENGLISH. 4 pm open for viewing and all the station’s Waterloo Row Esso gas station, the Built in 1876, Fredericton City Hall is Each tour lasts approximately 1 hour, equipment will be on display. The City’s project is a brownfield remediation the oldest city hall still in use in the 30 minutes. Tour numbers are limited Special Operations vehicle will also be success story. The contaminated Maritime Provinces. Fredericton City Hall (first-come, first-served) shown, as well as the Quint Truck (aerial land was cleaned up to an acceptable once included the magistrate’s office, Gain an insider’s view of behind-the- and pumper truck in one), the Tower standard and is now a shining example farmers’ market, opera house and scene workings of a professional Truck, and a pumper tanker. Visitors are of how land thought to be unacceptable even a jail. Today, the building includes performing arts centre. Ever wonder asked to follow the public parking signs for future use can be converted into a municipal offices and the council what that big white box is on top of the at the entrances. municipal landmark. Playhouse or how we make people fly civil engineering in 1854. The building and astronomy, and president of the on stage? Want to see where famous was designated a national historic civil University of New Brunswick from 1861 artists like Leonard Cohen, Buffy Ste. engineering site by the Canadian Society to 1885. Schooled in the traditions of the Marie, and Bruce Coburn hang out? of Civil Engineers. In the centre of the Scottish universities, he equipped the Want to learn more about our building’s building is the Great Hall which contains observatory with the best instruments history and present day operations? portraits of past heads of the university of the day. In collaboration with Harvard Take one of our guided tours that include and two stained glass windows, one Observatory he determined the longitude front of house, back stage, catwalks, depicting the Loyalists’ petition for of Fredericton and other places in New and conclude with an on-stage technical the college’s founding and the other Brunswick, and corrected errors in the 8 demonstration of lighting and sound. portraying Sir Howard Douglas. international boundary. Provincial Archives Photography is allowed. Children under The Edwin Jacob Chapel located off Now a museum, it contains many of 12 must be accompanied by a parent/ the Great Hall contains portraits of the original instruments, including a 7 23 Dineen Drive chaperone. No charge. Please note the three ordained Anglican ministers ½-foot mahogany and brass achromatic The Provincial Archives, located here that some areas of the tour are not associated with the university, the telescope, transit telescopes, as well as since 1967, collects and preserves wheelchair accessible. However, we are original pews carved up by generations memorabilia. documents relating to all aspects of the history of New Brunswick, including offering a special accessible tour at of students, and plaques honouring 2 pm. two UNB graduates, Bliss Carman its people and its institutions, and to make historical records available for and Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, both of whom made significant contributions public research. Its records offer a UNIVERSITY OF to Canadian letters. Also inside the multifaceted view of the province and its Chapel is a set of colourful stained glass people from Acadian and pre-Loyalists NEW BRUNSWICK CAMPUS windows designed by Molly Lamb Bobak periods to the present. and crafted by Ned Bowes and Hugh The building itself was once UNB’s MacKinnon of Shades of Light. Library from 1921 to 1967 with the The window depicts graduates and opening of the Harriet Irving Library. This professors in 3,500 individual pieces of 7 older library was renovated with a new glass. addition in 1951 which was financed Memorial Hall by Lord Beaverbrook. Named the Bonar Law-Bennett Building, the library was 9 Bailey Drive named in honour of Andrew Bonar Law, 5 Memorial Hall was the fifth university a New Brunswicker who was the only building constructed on campus. It is non-British-born person to become Sir Howard Douglas Hall dedicated to the alumni who served in Prime Minister of Great Britain, and who, 3 Bailey Drive the Great War. A plaque commemorates along with Richard B. Bennett, was the Sir Howard Douglas Hall, known for 6 the 35 who lost their lives—a number only New Brunswicker to become Prime many years as the Old Arts Building, equivalent in size to a graduating class Minister of Canada. The Bonar Law- was constructed as King’s College Brydone Jack Observatory in those days. Chemistry and chemical Bennett Building and the new repository engineering departments were once now comprise the Richard Bennett during 1826-29 through the efforts of First Astronomical Observatory in located in the building as well as a Hatfield Archives Complex. the province’s Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Canada dining hall. Convocations were held in Howard Douglas. 5 Bailey Drive The library’s Beaux Arts, red brick the auditorium, which was renovated style was considered unusual in its Officially opened on January 1, 1829, it The William Brydone Jack Observatory in 1970 and is used for live theatre, is the oldest university building still in day. Its architecture is still of great is the oldest astronomical observatory concerts, and a multitude of other interest today, with its modified Doric use on an English-language campus in in Canada. Constructed of wood, it has purposes. Memorial Hall is currently Canada. columns, its six-over-six and modified an octagonal tower especially designed home to the UNB Art Centre and the Palladian windows. Just below the It provided accommodation for the to house its equatorial telescope. It was Centre for Musical Arts. building’s front cornice is the Latin faculty and resident students as well built in 1851 at the initiation of William motto Ne Derelinquas me, Domine as a chapel, classrooms and a library. Brydone Jack (1819-1886), professor which translates as “Forsake me not It housed Canada’s first lectures in of mathematics, natural philosophy utterly, O Lord”—perhaps the prayer of students entering the library. The faculty of Leadership Studies known as HERITAGE CHURCHES Wilmot United original Beaverbrook Wing of the Library Renaissance College.