New Brunswick Literary Timeline Year Author/Editor Book/Event/Institutional Dev. Genre Publisher/Sponsor ---------- Jacques Cartier explores the coast of New Brunswick: 1534 ---------- ---------- Sieur de Monts’s settlement on Ste. Croix Island fails: 1604 ---------- --------- The first play in Acadia is performed at The Neptune Theatre --------- at Port Royal: 1606 1609 Marc Lescarbot Histoire de la Nouvelle-France Non-Fiction Paris: Jean Millot 1609 Marc Lescarbot Les Muses de La Nouvelle-France Verse Paris: Jean Millot -------- The Great Earthquake strikes northern New Brunswick: 1663 -------- ------ Nicholas Denys’s Geographical Description of the Coasts of North ------- America is published in Paris: 1672 ------------------ John Gyles is captured by the Maliseet: 1689 ------------------ ------------------- The Treaty of Utrecht gives mainland Acadie ------------------ (and Newfoundland) to the British: 1713 1736 John Gyles Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, Etc. Non-Fiction Boston: S. Kneeland & T. Greene ------------------------ Fort Beauséjour is constructed: 1751 ------------------------- ---------------- The Expulsion Order is issued against Acadians of ---------------- British North America: 1755 ------- British troops destroy first stone church at Burnt Church: 1758 ------- --------------- Battle of the Restigouche wages, the last between --------------- France and England for Canada: 1760 1776-1787 Benjamin Marston Diary of Benjamin Marston Non-Fiction Fredericton: UNB Archives and Special Collections 1781 Henry Alline Two Mites Non-Fiction Halifax: Anthony Henry ------------- 7000 Loyalists land at Parrtown (Saint John), and 1200 ------------- Page 1 New Brunswick Literary Timeline Penobscot Loyalists arrive in St. Andrews: 1783 1783 Henry Alline The Anti-Traditionalist Non-Fiction Halifax: Anthony Henry --------------- New Brunswick becomes an official British colony --------------- separate from Nova Scotia: 1784 ------- University of New Brunswick is founded as King's College: 1785 ------ -------------- Royal Gazette and New Brunswick Advertiser -------------- goes into circulation: 1785 1784 Henry Alline Hymns and Spiritual Songs Non-Fiction Boston: n.p. [Sackville, NB: Ralph Pickard Bell Library (Rpt. 1987)] ---------- The Legislature moves from Saint John to Fredericton: 1788 ---------- 1788 Jonathan Odell On Spring Poetry Philadelphia: n.p. -------------- The Busy Body is staged in Saint John: 1789 -------------- 1791 Various The British American Almanack for the Year 1792 Non-Fiction Saint John: Christopher Sower; John Ryan 1792 William Cobbett The Soldier's Friend Non-Fiction London: J. Ridgeway 1794 William Cobbett Observations on the Emigration of Dr. Joseph Priestley Non-Fiction Philadelphia: Richard Folwell 1795 William Cobbett A Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats Non-Fiction Philadelphia: n.p. 1795 William Cobbett A Little Plain English, Addressed to the People of the Non-Fiction Philadelphia: Bradford United States 1796 William Cobbett A Kick for a Bite Non-Fiction London: J. Ridgeway 1796 William Cobbett The Life and Adventures of Perter Porcupine Non-Fiction Philadelphia: William Cobbett 1797 William Cobbett Porcupine's Gazette Non-Fiction Philadelphia: W. Cobbett 1798 Adam Allan The New Gentle Shepherd (with a “Description of the Poetry London: Richardson Great Falls of the River Saint John...”) Page 2 New Brunswick Literary Timeline -------------------- First Public Schools Act is passed: 1802 -------------------- 1805 Jonathan Odell An Essay on the Elements, Accents and Prosody of the Non-Fiction London: n.p. English Language ------------ Fredericton's first paper, the Fredericton Telegraph , ------------ begins publishing: 1806 -------- Napoleonic blockade of European timber supplies creates --------- New Brunswick market: 1806 ----------- Drury Lane Theatre opens in Saint John: 1809 ----------- 1809 Joseph Holman (perf. Abroad and at Home Drama Saint John: Drury Lane Theatre His Majesty’s Servants) 1809 Isaac Jackman (perf. His All the World’s a Stage Drama Saint John: Drury Lane Theatre Majesty’s Servants) 1809 T. Sheridan (perf. His The Brave Irishman Drama Saint John: Drury Lane Theatre Majesty’s Servants) 1809 George Colman (perf. John Bull, Or, the Englishman’s Fire-Side Drama Saint John: Drury Lane Theatre His Majesty’s Servants) 1809 Thomas Morton (perf. Zorinski Drama Saint John: Drury Lane Theatre His Majesty’s Servants) 1810 C.S. Powell The Evening Brush for Rubbing Off the Rust of Care Drama Saint John: Drury Lane Theatre 1811 (-1865) Henry Chubb The New Brunswick Courier Journal/Paper Saint John ---- 300 former slaves from Virginia and Maryland arrive in Saint John ---- and settle in Loch Lomond: 1815 1815 Charles Mackin (perf. Love À-la-Mode Drama Saint John: Drury Lane Theatre Neville Parker and James Lyster, et al.) 1816 Perf. Neville Parker and The Sailor’s Return or Jack’s Cure for the Hystericks Drama Saint John: Drury Lane Theatre James Lyster, et al. Page 3 New Brunswick Literary Timeline 1816 Andrew Cherry (perf. The Soldier’s Daughter Drama Saint John: Drury Lane Theatre Neville Parker and James Lyster, et al.) ----------- Drury Lane Theatre closes permanently: 1816 ----------- 1816 Joshua Marsden The Narrative of a Mission to Nova Scotia, New Non-Fiction Plymouth-Dock: J. Johns Brunswick and the Somers Islands, With a Tour to Lake Ontario 1816(?) George J. Mountain A Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Fredericton, Non-Fiction Fredericton: n.p. on the 14th of January 1816 1817 Sheriff Walter Bates The Mysterious Stranger, Or, Memoirs of the Notorious Fiction New Haven, CT: Malty, Goldsmith, & Co. Henry More Smith ----- Bank of New Brunswick, first chartered bank in Canada, opens: 1820 ----- 1821 William Cobbett Cottage Economy Non-Fiction London: Peter Davies 1824 Julia Catherine Beckwith St. Ursula's Convent, or, The Nun of Canada: Containing Fiction Kingston: Hugh C. Thompson Hart Scenes from Real Life 1824 Julia Catherine Beckwith Tonnewonte, or, The Adopted Son of America: A Tale Fiction Watertown, NY: J.Q. Adams Hart Containing Scenes from Real Life 1824 John Mann The Emigrant's Instructor Non-Fiction Glasgow: Andrew Young --------------------------- The Great Miramichi Fire: 1825 --------------------------- (lays waste to almost 20% of the province) ------------------------- New Brunswick's first railway opens ------------------------- with a Stephenson's Rocket engine: 1825 1825 (-1828) William Cobbett The Woodlands: Or, a Treatise on the Preparing of Non-Fiction London: William Cobbett Ground for Planting 1825 Peter Fisher Sketches of New Brunswick: Containing an Account of the Non-Fiction Saint John: Chubb and Sears First Settlement of the Province 1825 Oliver Goldsmith The Rising Village Poetry London: J. Sharpe and C.and C. Whittingham Page 4 New Brunswick Literary Timeline 1825 James Hogg Poems, Religious, Moral and Sentimental Poetry Saint John: Henry Chubb 1826 George J. Mountain The Foundation and Constitution of the Christian Non-Fiction Québec(?): n.p. Ministry and the General Outline of the Ministerial Character and Duties 1830 Marianne Prowse “The Burning Forest, A Tale of Miramichi, New Poetry London: Smith, Elder Brunswick” Poems 1832 Robert Cooney A Compendious History of the Northern Part of the Non-Fiction Halifax: J. Howe Province of New Brunswick, and of the District of Gaspé, in Lower Canada 1833 William Martin Leggett The Forest Wreath Poetry Saint John: Durant & Sancton --------------- The province's first mining license to mine coal --------------- in Minto is issued to Andrew Flemming: 1834 1838 Peter Fisher Notilia of New-Brunswick for 1836 and Extending into Non-Fiction Saint John: Peter Fisher 1837 1839 George J. Mountain A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Non-Fiction Québec(?): n.p. Quebec, by George J. Mountain, D.D. ---------- The Mechanics Institute opens in Saint John: 1840 ---------- 1840 William Martin Leggett Sacred Poems Poetry n.p.: n.p. 1840 John Medley How the Mighty are Fallen: A Sermon Preached at the Non-Fiction Exeter, England: n.p. Visitation of Archdeacon M. Stevens 1840(?) George J. Mountain A Pastoral Letter to be Distributed Where It May be Non-Fiction Québec(?): n.p. Found Necessary Among the Parishioners of Quebec 1840 Hannah Maynard Pickard Procrastination, or, Maria Louisa Winslow Fiction Boston: D.S. King -------- Report from American Commission on boundary line between ------- New Brunswick and Maine (the Ashburton Treaty defines the border the next year): 1841 1841 (-1843) Robert Shives Amaranth Journal Saint John: Robert Shives Page 5 New Brunswick Literary Timeline 1841 John Medley Elementary Remarks on Church Architecture Non-Fiction Exeter, England: Kessinger 1841 Edmund Ward An Account of the River St. John, With Its Tributary Rivers Emigration Guide Fredericton: Sentinel Office and Lakes ---------- Moses Perley submits his Report on Indian Settlements : 1842 ---------- (informs the NB Indian Act of 1844) --------------- Abraham Gesner opens his private museum, --------------- forerunner of the New Brunswick Museum: 1842 1842 (-1852) Thomas Hill and James Loyalist ; Loyalist and Conservative Advocate ; (later: Journal Fredericton: n.p. Doak (until 1847) Loyalist and Protestant Vindicator ) 1842 Thomas Hill The Aurora Journal Saint John 1842 Dr. Abraham Gesner New Brunswick Museum [1930-present] (renamed from: Museum Saint John (-Present) [founder] Gesner's Museum of Natural History [1842-1929]) 1842 Edmund Ward Solitude: And Other Poems Poetry Fredericton: Sentinel