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FREDERICTON 5834 The City of Stately Elms was formed at the shores of St. John’s River that flows right in the middle of the city area. The river was in important transport way that brought the first people to these fertile and extremely rich lands. The first inhabitants of this bend in the river were Micmac and Maliseet Indians who came here in spring and spent warm season growing corn, fishing and hunting. After gathering the harvest, they moved further along the Woolastook, this is how they called the St. John River. Some time later English and French conquerors began the fight for the American new world, and the French won the ownership of Nova Scotia together with the valley of St. John River.
During the last half of 18th century the King of France established land grants. One of such grants was given to Joseph Robineau de Villebon in 1692. He created a fort in the place where the Mashwaak River flows into the St. John. Soon the settlement formed near the fort became one of the richest centers of fur trade. The Villebon’s successor moved to Port Royal located in Nova Scotia for restoring the fort of that place. This was a year when spring floods broke the settlement near Fort Mashwaak and local settlers also moved to Port Royal. Only in 1732 the Fredericton (this is how the area at St. John River’s shores was called) was re-settled by French Acadians that escaped from the British forces when the latter conquered Nova Scotia.
The settlement was located on a land area where Old Government House is standing nowadays. Their community was named Ste. Anne’s Point. 83 people in 15 families lived there. In 1758 the land was passed into the hands of the English after they took Louisburg. To eliminate the resistance from the side of the French, English forces destroyed the most of settlements located in the valley of St. John River, exterminating Acadians and burning their homes. In 1762 the move of English conquers was stopped at St. Anne’s Point by the local Indians, the English turned back to Maugerville where they made a settlement. In 1783 when the American Revolution came to its finish, about 35 000 of American Loyalists escaped to Nova Scotia.
The half of them settled in today’s New Brunswick, and about 2 000 occupied the areas of St. John River Valley. However severe winter affected the tent camps formed by Loyalists and very few of them survived. Those who died were buried at Salamanca place by their families and friends. Today this place is marked by a granite monument – a big boulder with a plaque. It also has an inscription that commemorates the courage of early settlers who founded Fredericton city and express the gratefulness of their descendants. This monument can be easily found at Waterloo Row’s end.
In 1983 the United Empire Loyalists Society raised a new monument in honour of the 200th anniversary since Loyalists first came to Fredericton. The monument stands at the front of the Old Burial Ground located on Brunswick Street. The Burial was found by those Loyalists who survived after that severe winter, many of its victims were buried here. In 1784 spring time Loyalists made a petition to Governor Parr in Halifax in order to turn the northern lands of the Bay of Fundy into a separate province. This request was rejected. But in that year’s summer the Government of Great Britain decided to create a new province of the lands of the County of Sunbury (the newer name of Nova Scotia). The request of Loyalists was approved and this is how New Brunswick was created.
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