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For nearly 100 years the justice building, and former Provincial Normal School has been a prominent feature in downtown Fredericton, N.B. History enthusiasts are preparing for its next life, with a new justice building set to be built in the capital by 2025.
WINNIPEG A residents’ group in the R.M. of St. Andrews is calling on the provincial government to restore one of the community’s oldest buildings. Captain Kennedy House, a stone mansion nestled on the banks of the Red River, was built in 1866. The house’s namesake, Captain William Kennedy, was a Métis explorer best known for commanding two expeditions to search for Sir John Franklin in the Arctic. Kennedy later served as an Anglican missionary and Hudson’s Bay Company employee in Lower Fort Garry. Kennedy House is owned by the province and was designated a heritage site in 1989. But the building, which housed a museum and tea room, closed its doors in 2015 because of structural problems.
The invasion meant to free Ireland ended up helping form an independent Canada. Author: Peter Gallivan Updated: 7:37 AM EDT March 16, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. Invading Canada to free Ireland: seems like a far-fetched plan, but in 1866, a group of Irish ex-pats conspired to do just that.
It was supposed to be a three-prong assault, with 3,000 men gathering in Chicago and Milwaukee, another 5,000 here in Buffalo and Cleveland, with the main invading force of more than 16,000 in Vermont, attacking Quebec.
Local historian Gene Overdorf says Western New York was not supposed to be the epicenter. Buffalo was supposed to be a diversionary tactic, wound up being the only thrust of the Fenians that day, says Overdorf.