The Story of Fredericton, 1848-1948

"There is little need of preface to this book on the story of Fredericton. The different chapters speak for themselves. Taken together they give a fairly full picture of the varied interests and activities of the city from the beginning to the present Centennial year. The book is not so much a history as a story. While in some of the chapters it will be found to contain creditable research work, the book, on the whole, and in the main, is intended for popular use, and with a view to appealing to the young and those who have little taste for heavier reading and dry-as-dust facts. Where history is dealt with in the book, most of what is written is intended to be supplementary to the information supplied by the ordinary school books, the personal and more picturesque aspect of things being kept uppermost. It is felt that this feature should make the book useful in school libraries, and by appealing to the imagination, youthful minds should be attracted and led to deeper studies, greater loyalty, and better citizenship. It will be a disappointment to the compilers of the book if the citizens of school age do not find it interesting, and if some of the results just indicated do not follow from reading it. To older ones also the book should make its appeal. Names and pictures of citizens who were prominent factors in the city's life fifty and sixty years ago, now almost forgotten, should be of interest, and doubtless will be. The breadth and diversity of the city's ecclesiastical, educational, fraternal, cultural, commercial, social, political, and domestic life, together with its agricultural and sporting activities are all touched upon and illustrated by writers chosen by the York-Sunbury Historical Society on account of their fitness for the tasks assigned ..."--Preface.