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Sackville (45°54′N 64°22′W, AST) is a town in Westmorland County, located in South-Eastern New Brunswick, Canada, only eight km from the Nova Scotia border and 45 km from the regional city of Moncton. In 2001 it had a population of 5,361 people, almost all English-speaking. Canada consists of ten provinces and three territories. ...
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Westmorland County may refer to more than one place: Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada Westmorland, England, now part of Cumbria This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
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AST is UTC-4 The Atlantic Standard Time Zone (AST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), resulting in UTC-4. ...
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Download high resolution version (1120x840, 461 KB)The Wild Fowl Park, Sackville, NB, Canada (David Nicol) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Download high resolution version (1120x840, 461 KB)The Wild Fowl Park, Sackville, NB, Canada (David Nicol) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
The Atlantic Standard Time Zone (AST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ...
Westmorland County (2001 population 124,688) is located in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. ...
Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope restored) Official languages English, French Flower Purple Violet Tree Balsam Fir Bird Black-capped Chickadee Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson Premier Shawn Graham (Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 10 10 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked...
Moncton is the second largest city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick and lies at the centre of the fastest growing urban region in the province. ...
2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Sackville is the home of Mount Allison University. The town is located on the western fringe of the Tantramar Marshes, tidal wetlands partially transformed to farmland by dykes first built by the original Acadians settlers of the region in the 17th century. The marshes remain one of the largest tidal wetlands in the world. In the centre of the town, an area of the wetlands has been developed and designated as the Sackville Waterfowl Park. The park has many walking trails and boardwalks for wildlife observation. Radio Canada International's short-wave transmitting station is located on the marshes just outside town. Located in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, Mount Allison University is a highly regarded liberal arts university, consistently ranked as one of the top undergraduate universities in Canada. ...
A typical view of the Marsh The Tantramar Marshes are on the southern part of the Isthmus of Chignecto, which joins Nova Scotia to New Brunswick and the Canadian mainland. ...
A dyke (or dike) is a stone or earthen wall constructed as a defence or as a boundary. ...
Acadians are the original French settlers of parts of the northeastern region of North America comprising what is now the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. ...
Radio Canada International (RCI) is the international broadcasting service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). ...
Historically home to two foundries manufacturing stoves and furnaces, the economy is now driven by the university and tourism. Small-scale agriculture is carried out in the surrounding area, including dairy farming supported by haying on the marshes. The town is located on CN's Halifax-Montreal main railway line and is also on the Trans-Canada Highway connecting New Brunswick with Nova Scotia. The Greater Moncton International Airport (YQM) is located about 37 km north of town. Hay is dried grass or legumes cut and used for animal feed. ...
The Canadian National Railway (CN; AAR reporting marks CN, CNA, CNIS), known as Canadian National Railways (CNR) between 1918 and 1960, and Canadian National/Canadien National (CN) from 1960 to present, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian National Railway Company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. ...
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Trans Canada Highway over Canada Map The Trans-Canada Highway is a federal-provincial highway system that joins all ten provinces of Canada. ...
Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Official languages English, French (Canadian Gaelic) [] Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 11 10 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked...
The Greater Moncton International Airport (French: Aéroport international du Grand Moncton) or Moncton/Greater Moncton International Airport (IATA: YQM, ICAO: CYQM) is located 4. ...
The town includes the amalgamated communities of Middle Sackville and Upper Sackville. It was originally part of the Colony of Nova Scotia's Sackville Township which was established following the Seven Years' War in 1762–1763, alongside neighbouring Amherst Township and Cumberland Township. The name "Sackville" honours British military commander George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville. The original town of Sackville was situated around several mills at Silver Lake in present-day Middle Sackville; the town's central business district moved to the present location after the Intercolonial Railway of Canada built the Truro-Moncton mainline south of town along the edge of the Tantramar Marshes. The term township is used to denote a lower level territorial subdivision. ...
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1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1763 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Lord George Germain (1780). ...
The Intercolonial Railway of Canada (IRC or ICR), also referred to as the Intercolonial Railway, was a historic Canadian railway. ...
One of Truros tree sculptures Truro (2001 population 11,457; area population 44,276) is a town in central Nova Scotia, Canada. ...
Moncton (46°6ⲠN 64°46ⲠW) is the second largest city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick and is at the heart of the fastest growing urban area in the province. ...
A typical view of the Marsh The Tantramar Marshes are on the southern part of the Isthmus of Chignecto, which joins Nova Scotia to New Brunswick and the Canadian mainland. ...
The warship and Canada's living memorial to the Battle of the Atlantic, HMCS Sackville, is named after the town. The Flower class corvettes were a class of 267 corvettes developed by the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy specifically for the protection of shipping convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945) in World War II. They were a stop-gap measure in the war against the German...
Battle of the Atlantic can refer to either of two naval campaigns, depending on context: World War I - First Battle of the Atlantic World War II - Second Battle of the Atlantic A Third Battle of the Atlantic was envisioned to be be part of any Third World War that arose...
USS Intensitry at sea -- a Flower class corvette, like HMCS Sackville, in American service HMCS Sackville (K181) was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy. ...
History
The Sackville founders monument commemorates the Town's incorporation and its founding peoples. It was installed on the campus of Mount Allison University in 2003. Sackville history (and that of the Tantramar Region) can be divided into a number of periods reflecting settlement patterns in the area, and then the evolution of the community: Mi'kmaq or pre-European, Acadian, Planter and Yorkshire, and United Empire Loyalists, followed by the so-called Age of Sail, the foundry period and finally contemporary Sackville. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (819x614, 636 KB) Sackville founders monument on the campus of Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB. I made this picture and freely share it. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (819x614, 636 KB) Sackville founders monument on the campus of Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB. I made this picture and freely share it. ...
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The Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia (located on the northern portion of North Americas east coast). ...
The New England Planters were settlers from the New England colonies who responded to requests by the lieutenant governor and, subsequently, governor of Nova Scotia, Charles Lawrence, to settle lands left vacant by the Acadian Expulsion of 1755. ...
The Yorkshire Emigration to Nova Scotia occurred between 1772 and 1775 and involved an approximate one thousand migrants from mainly Yorkshire, England arriving to Nova Scotia to settle the colony upon the expulsion of its Acadian population. ...
The name United Empire Loyalists is given to those British Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War. ...
The age of sail is the period in which international trade and naval warfare were both dominated by sailing ships. ...
The Isthmus of Chignecto, the narrow strip of land connecting Nova Scotia to the rest of Canada, was long-used by native groups in the region, principally the Mi'kmaq, for over 3000 years. A natural crossroads between present-day New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, the Tantramar was a natural meeting place. The Missiguash and Baie Verte Rivers are also believed to have served as a principle portage route from the Bay of Fundy to the Northumberland Strait. The Isthmus of Chignecto is an isthmus bordering the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia which connects the mainland portion of Nova Scotia with North America. ...
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Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Official languages English, French (Canadian Gaelic) [] Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 11 10 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked...
The Tantramar Marshes are former salt-marshes that were dyked and drained on the Isthmus of Chignecto between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. ...
The Bay of Fundy (French: ) is a bay located on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the U.S. state of Maine. ...
French settlement first began in the Maritimes in 1604, but it was not until the early eighteenth century that Acadian settlement reached the Tantramar. Acadian communities had spread slowly from Port Royal up the Nova Scotian Fundy Coast via Grand Pré, and finally on to the Maccan area. Much of the area already settled by Acadians was similar to the Tantramar’s highly fertile salt marshes. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. ...
The Acadians built a system of dykes and sluices (known as les aboiteaux) that allowed them to cultivate the very fertile marshlands. A number of communities grew, including Pré de Bourque (thought by some to be closest to present-day downtown Sackville), Tintamarre (present-day Middle or Upper Sackville), and Beaubassin (present-day Fort Lawrence, roughly where the Nova Scotia visitor's centre is located). Despite great prosperity, the Acadian period ended tragically in 1755 with the deportation of the Acadians. The seeds of the deportation, however, had been sown much earlier. In 1713 the Treaty of Utrecht ended the War of the Spanish Succession (or Queen Ann’s War) and granted control of Nova Scotia to the British. Unfortunately the treaty was very vague on where Nova Scotia stopped and French Acadia began. The British interpreted the boundary to be close to the present-day boundary between New Brunswick and Quebec. The French interpreted the boundary as the Isthmus of Chignecto, which agreed with a larger policy of French containment of British settlement in North America. The Tantramar, and the Acadian settlements there, became ground zero for the nine-year conflict that became the Seven Years' War (or the French and Indian War). The Treaty of Utrecht comprised a series of peace treaties signed in Utrecht in March and April 1713 that helped end the War of the Spanish Succession. ...
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In the intervening peace both the British and the French constructed forts on the Isthmus of Chignecto. The French built Fort Beauséjour on a ridge overlooking the Cumberland Basin and the Tantramar marshes on what is today Aulac Ridge. The British built Fort Lawrence on the next ridge (just over the Missiguash River, the present-day border between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia). Fort Beauséjour is a National Historic Site located in Aulac, New Brunswick, Canada. ...
Although the French had ceded Nova Scotia to the British, the Acadians continued to live and prosper. For the most part, the Acadians seem to have been free of imperial allegiance, either to the French or to the British. Between the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht and the outbreak of hostilities in the 1750s, numerous attempts were made by the British authorities to secure oaths of allegiance from the Acadians. Although most Acadians were willing to swear oaths of allegiance to the British Crown, it was always on the condition of neutrality in the event of any conflict between Britain and France. The Acadians also refused overtures by the French to aid in military action against the British. Fort Beauséjour was captured by the British in June, 1755. Several Acadians were found among the French soldiers at the fort. The British claimed this proved that the Acadians had not only violated their neutrality, but that they were openly on the side of the French. Soon after, Lieutenant Governor Charles Lawrence ordered the deportation of the Acadians and the destruction of their homes and property. Many were scattered across North America, although some returned at the conclusion of hostilities. It is believed that a number of Acadians hid in the woods of south-eastern New Brunswick with the aid of the Mi’kmaq. The diaspora of the Acadians has become known as le Grand Dérangement (see the Great Upheaval). Charles Lawrence (December 14, 1709 â October 19, 1760) was a British military officer who, as lieutenant governor and subsequently governor of Nova Scotia, was responsible for overseeing the expulsion of Acadians from the colony in the Great Upheaval. ...
The Great Upheaval (le Grand Dérangement), also known as the Great Expulsion, The Deportation or the Acadian Expulsion, was the forced population transfer of the Acadian population from Nova Scotia between 1755 and 1763, ordered by British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council. ...
With much of the population of Nova Scotia deported, British authorities looked to other sources of settlers. In 1758 Governor Lawrence issued a proclamation calling for New England Planters. Enlisted men finishing their military service at Fort Cumberland, as Fort Beauséjour had been renamed, were also offered land grants in the area. Waves of New Englanders arrived throughout the 1760s. The New England Planters were settlers from the New England colonies who responded to requests by the lieutenant governor and, subsequently, governor of Nova Scotia, Charles Lawrence, to settle lands left vacant by the Acadian Expulsion of 1755. ...
As part of the settlement campaign, New England-style townships were surveyed in the area from the early 1760s. Sackville Township was named for George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716-1785), a member of parliament as well as a military commander. Many Planters were ultimately unhappy with the area however, and returned to New England. Lord George Germain (1780). ...
Hoping for more settlers, Lieutenant Governor Michael Franklin made a visit to Yorkshire in 1769-'70. Over a thousand settlers emigrated from Yorkshire to settle in Nova Scotia throughout the 1770s. Largely tenant farmers, the "Yorkshiremen" bought much of their land from departing New England Planters. Although immigrants of the "Yorkshire Immigration" settled across Nova Scotia, they had the largest impact on the Tantramar area. Both the Planters and the Yorkshire settlers brought the non-conformist denominations to the Tantramar. A group of Planters from Swansea, Massachusetts formed the first Baptist Congregation in British North America when they immigrated in 1763. The first Methodist congregation in British North America was formed in the Tantramar from Yorkshire immigrants in 1772. They constructed the earliest Methodist church in British North America at Point de Bute, a few kilometers from Sackville, in 1788. In English history, a non-conformist is any member of a Protestant congregation not affiliated with the Church of England. ...
Baptist is a term describing a tradition within Christianity and may also refer to individuals belonging to a Baptist church or a Baptist denomination. ...
The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ...
With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775, some in the Tantramar desired to join forces with the patriots and make Nova Scotia the fourteenth state of a new republic. Led by Jonathan Eddy, a group of rebels laid siege to Fort Cumberland. Despite attempts to raise assistance from the Continental Army, the rebels went unassisted. Their siege was somewhat disorganized, and British soldiers were able to slip through the lines and send word of the attack to Halifax. The rebels hung on until British reinforcements finally arrived from Halifax following a harrowing journey. The loyalty of the Yorkshire settlers was of tremendous aid in defeating the Eddy Rebellion. The rebels were punished and many of their homes and possessions seized. The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen of her North American colonies. ...
Following the war, large numbers of refugees, the United Empire Loyalists, moved north into British North America, some to the Sackville area. Over 32,000 of them settled in the colony of Nova Scotia. Many Loyalists settled in mainland Nova Scotia and soon requested the creation of their own colony. The Colony of New Brunswick was created in August 1785. Fearing the sort of fierce and republican dedication to democracy that had developed in the Thirteen Colonies to the south, the New England-style Townships, including Sackville, were quickly abolished.
August 11, 2006
August 11 fire on York Street. On Friday August 11, 2006, downtown Sackville fell victim to a severe fire on the corner of York and Main streets. Many businesses housed in the Dixon block, including the Aliant shop and the Wine Rack, were burnt beyond salvation. Many other businesses sustained severe smoke, fire, and/or water damage, such as Joey's, a popular restaurant. Although Ducky's, a popular bar, was initially closed, it was able to reopen the following weekend. Apartments which were on the second story of all the local shops were evacuated quickly, and no injuries were reported. The community has leapt forward, offering housing to students and tenants whose apartments fell victim to the fire, and also donating whatever food and clothing they can. Mount Allison University has already launched "Project Rebuild", hoping to fundraise enough money to give the town of Sackville a head start in reconstuction and cleanup. Image File history File linksMetadata Fire03. ...
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Sackville Landmarks Cranewood is a mansion constructed circa 1836. It is located in downtown Sackville on Main Street, adjacent to the Sackville Waterfowl Park. It was constructed by William Crane (1785-1883) as a family residence. Crane was the business partner of Charles Frederick Allison (founder of Mount Allison University). They co-owned a general store at the crossroads of what is now Main and York/Bridge streets, where the town hall now stands. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1000x695, 103 KB) Bridge street Sackville, New Brunswick, taken by SimonP I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1000x695, 103 KB) Bridge street Sackville, New Brunswick, taken by SimonP I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
In 1867 the house was purchased by Josiah Wood (1843-1927), again for use as a private residence. The name Cranewood is an amalgamation of the owners’ surnames. Wood was a member of the first graduating class of Mount Allison, and enjoyed a successful career as a lawyer. He later served as Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. The house was purchased in 1975 by Mount Allison University. Since then it has served as the residence for the university president and his or her family.
Selected Bibliography - Hamilton, William B. At The Crossroads: A History of Sackville, New Brunswick, Gaspereau Press, Kentville, 2004.
See also Located in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, Mount Allison University is a highly regarded liberal arts university, consistently ranked as one of the top undergraduate universities in Canada. ...
The Tantramar Heritage Trust is a non-profit charity that promotes the preservation of heritage buildings, artefacts and lands in an area of south-east New Brunswick along the Nova Scotia border known as the Tantramar. This region, which is centred around Sackville, New Brunswick and Amherst, Nova Scotia is...
The Flag of Canada George Francis Gillman Stanley, C.C., C.D., F.R.S.C., F.R.H.S.C. (hon). ...
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