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Hotels in Fredericton |
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 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.
The City
The
Saint John River
, running from northern Maine to the Bay of Fundy, was for a long time the fastest way to reach
Fredericton
, whose early streets, bounded by Brunswick Street to the south and York Street to the west, were laid...
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