-- From Amherst to St Stephen, Border Canada/USA
The road tracklog
from Amherst to St Stephen, border Canada:USA
from 31/10/2011 to 04/11/2011
Saint John
The night was very cold, my truck was covered with ice and the interior temperature of 6°C. After the publication of the pages of my website from the McDo carpark, I moved towards Saint John in New Brunswick by the coastal road which I gave up quickly, it was icy, to take Hwy # 2 & # 1, safety first.
En route
Hwy #106
31/10/2011
I took a collation on the way to arrive in the early afternoon in Saint John under a sky of a limpid blue with an icy wind. Sights of the city are seldom, the hostess of the VIC indicated City Market, well. On the other hand the city is dominated by two military constructions, Fort Howe and Carleton Martello Tower from where the panoramic sight is unobstructed. I bivouacked on the latter spot.
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City Market
Saint John
31/10/2011
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Bird's eye view from Fort Howe
Uptown Saint John
31/10/2011
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Bird's eye view from Carleton Martello Tower
Saint John
31/10/2011
Fredericton
In this All Saints' Day I left Saint John in the coldness. The roads had been salted in the night. I headed along the Saint John River by Hwy # 102 to go to the capital of New Brunswick, Fredericton, town of less than 50,000 inhabitants where I arrived in the early afternoon. The VIC is in the City Hall but not hostess. After having made several offices I found the person suitable to obtain a parking passe.
En route Hwy #102
Saint John River
01/11/2011
I visited Beaverbrook Gallery whose collections are mainly a donation by Lord Beaverbrook, No Photo. At the entrance three Dali are in majesty. In the rooms I noticed a pretty Cranach and, oh amazement, a Rodin given by Marcel Boussac, French entrepreneur.
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Lucas Cranach
Head of Honoré de Balzac by Rodin
Opposite on the other side of the street the Provincial Parliament, like always accessible to the public without accompaniment, offers to visitors a sumptuous round table. Alas the Mass was not exposed. The day was sunny but cold. I stationed for the night atn Walmart.
Legislative Assembly
Fredericton
01/11/2011
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City Hall
Fredericton
01/11/2011
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I remained still a day on the Walmart carpark to work at my website, to finish the pages of the trip into Canada and to prepare the pages of this one into the USA. I spent all the day. |
St Andrews by-the-Sea
St Andrews by-the-Sea is a nice small village at the borders of New Brunswick opposite the coast of Maine, the USA. In this early November no tourist in streets. Only the inhabitants were occupied with their occupation curved by a violent wind and an intense cold. At the entry I was accommodated by the worthy Fairmont Algonquin Hotel dating back to 1889 with an extraordinary maritime architecture.
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Fairmont Algonquin Hotel
On the seashore a Blockhouse is the last vestige of a many ones dating from the 1812 war with the USA. At the corner of Water & King St a mural is truer than natural.
Blockhouse
St Andrews
03/11/2011
Mural
The current streetscape
In a local art gallery the employees hung to the wall some paints by North-American artists.
Sunbury Shore Arts & Nature Centre
St Andrews
03/11/2011
Strolling quickly in grid streets I detected three interesting buildings, the Court House, one of the five churches of different Christian confession and the inevitable lighthouse. I establish my bivouac at the end of the village vis-à-vis the USA at about 500 meters.
Greenock Presbyterian Church
Pendelbury Lighthouse
St Stephen
In the early morning I took a pictureh of the lighthouse and the border between Canada and the USA whose proximity justified the blockhouses in 1812. On the move towards the border I stopped to pay honor in front of one of the first French settlement in the Saint Croix Island. At St Stephen I sacrificed to the rite of the tourist by buying Ganong chocolates whose factory dates back to 1910. After lunching I went at the border.
Pendelbury lighthouse & border Canada/USA
St Andrews
04/11/2011
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Île de Sainte Croix
04/11/2011
Acadia
The approach of the history of Acadia and Acadians was done by episodes with the liking of the visits of museums and sites during the tourist season. The reports are superficial and unstitched written with the current. My site is neither a guide book nor a history book and even less an encyclopedia. I incite the reader to use the search engines to go beyond that. To this end the article by Wikipedia is an essential complement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadia.
Culture requires a personal effort,
it is deserved.
Border crossing
Canada-USA
Look at the page border crossing
