Canada Guide
The Maritime Provinces
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Address: By the river at the foot of St John Street
Opening time: Daily 9am–5.30pm, Thurs till 9pm
Price: $8, Thurs after 5.30pm voluntary donation
Website: www.beaverbrookartgallery.org
Lord Beaverbrook (1879–1964), the newspaper tycoon and champion of the British Empire, was raised in New Brunswick's Newcastle, and although he moved to England in 1910 – becoming a close friend of Churchill and a key member of his war cabinet – he sustained a sentimental attachment to his homeland. In Fredericton his largesse was extended to the university, the Playhouse Theatre, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. It's a first-rate gallery, where an eclectic and regularly rotated collection of mostly British and Canadian art is squeezed into a dozen or so rooms, sharing space with an imaginative programme of temporary exhibitions; free plans are issued at reception.