… with someone in Fredericton this afternoon so I need to have a drive down there this morning and I can’t hang about to take photos along the road.
It doesn’t stop me observing things though, and I’ve just seen a lorry heading north along the Trans Canada Highway with some freight containers with the word “TROPICAL” written on them. And that reminds me – when I was in Saint John the other day I saw a ship in the harbour there unloading a pile of “TROPICAL” containers. Maybe they are the same.
Having had my meeting, I can go for a good wander around the city and see the bits of the city that I haven’t managed to see so far.
And there are plenty of things to see here. It must have been a wealthy place in the past.
This is St Paul’s United Church, and that sounds too much like a church for the local football club if you ask me. However it refers to the 1925 merger between the Methodist, Congregational and Presbyterian congregations who now all worship here.
The building itself dates from 1886 and has one of the most impressive spires that I have ever seen.
According to the sign at the side of this property, this is the York House Parking, so one assumes that this building is York House.
There is a plaque telling us that it was formerly the site of the New Brunswick Baptist Seminary from 1836 to 1872, the first Institute of Higher Education to admit males and females on an equal footing.
And if a beautiful building like this is so anonymous and the only plaque relates to a previous building, then that previous building must really have been something.
I hadn’t managed to take a decent photo of the Governor’s Palace in Fredericton when I’d been here before, and as I went past it this evening it was all floodlit and looked absolutely splendid, so this was clearly the moment.
It was built in 1823 for the Governor of new Brunswick and after 1893 became the headquarters of the New Brunswick Mounties
From here I headed up the Trans Canada Highway and made it as far as Kings Landing when I was obliged to pull over for a kip.
