Situated 100km inland from the Bay of Fundy on the banks of the Saint John River,
Fredericton, the capital of
New Brunswick, has a well-padded air, the
streets of its tiny centre graced by well-established elms and genteel villas. There's scarcely any industry here and
the population of 46,000 mostly work for the government or the university, at least partly fulfilling the aims of one
of the town's aristocratic sponsors, who announced in 1784: "it shall be the most gentlemanlike place on earth".
Fredericton has
few specific sights, but what there is good, principally the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the gift of that crusty old
reactionary Lord Beaverbrook, and the occasional building left from the Military Compound that once housed the
garrison. Also York-Sunbury Historical Society Museum, Legislative Assembly Building, and the Green Village
Butterfly House, walk among tropical butterflies right here.
