The Ice House Gang, also known as the McCord Hall writers, the Tuesday Night Group, or simply Tuesday Night, was an influential creative writing collective active in Fredericton from 1967…
Abraham Beverley Walker
Abraham Beverley Walker, lawyer and journalist was born in 1851 in Belleisle and was the son of William Walker and Patience Taylor. Walker was Canada’s First Canadian-Born Black lawyer (1881) ,…
Alexander College
Alexander College was the auxiliary college established to accommodate the influx of veterans post-Second World War. It was named for Governor General Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis: British…
Laurie Murison
Laurie Murison was co-director of the Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station for many years. She created the Gaskin Memorial Museum in four rooms of the house in North…
University of New Brunswick
The University of New Brunswick in Fredericton is the first English-language university in Canada. The idea for a university was born as the American Revolutionary War drew to a close in…
Mary Mathilda Winslow
Mary Mathilda Winslow was born in Woodstock to Sarah Anne (Dubois) Winslow. She was the first black woman to attend the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. She graduated at…