Canada Guide
The Maritime Provinces
York-Sunbury Historical Museum
Address: West side of Officers' Square
Opening time: April– June Tues– Sat 1–4pm; July & Aug Mon– Sat 10am–5pm & Sun noon–5pm; Sept– Nov Tues– Sat 1–4pm
Price: $3
One reminder of the British presence is the elegant three-storey Officers' Quarters, whose symmetrical columns and stone arches follow a design much used by Queen Victoria's Royal Engineers. Inside, the York-Sunbury Historical Museum possesses an intriguing assortment of local bygones, which fills every nook and cranny of this warren-like building. The ground floor kicks off with displays on Fredericton under the British and up above – on the second floor – are military uniforms, armaments and a reconstruction of a World War I trench. Moving on, the third floor holds a couple of Native Canadian rooms, with a ragbag of archeological finds, plus the stuffed remains of the twenty-kilo "Coleman Frog", a giant-sized amphibian of dubious origins. It's not known whether the creature is real or not, but the local innkeeper, who produced it in the 1880s, claimed to have fed it on beer and buttermilk.