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Government House, Fredericton

Government House
Résidence du governeur (French)
Old Government House - Fredericton (2).gif
General information
Architectural style Adamesque Georgian
Town or city 51 Woodstock Road
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Country Canada
Coordinates 45°57′56″N 66°39′21″W / 45.965589°N 66.655834°W / 45.965589; -66.655834
Construction started 1826
Client Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
Owner The Queen in Right of New Brunswick
(Elizabeth II)
Technical details
Structural system Timber framing and load-bearing masonry
Official name Old Government House National Historic Site of Canada
Designated 1958
Type Provincial Heritage Place
Designated 1996

Government House is the official residence of the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, as well as that in Fredericton of the Canadian monarch. It stands on a 4.5 ha (11 acre) estate along the Saint John River in the provincial capital at 51 Woodstock Road; while the equivalent building in many countries has a prominent, central place in the territorial capital, the site of New Brunswick's Government House is relatively unobtrusive within Fredericton, giving it more the character of a private home.

Intended to replace the residence of the colonial Lieutenant Governors of New Brunswick that burned down in 1825, Government House was erected between 1826 and 1828 on the site of the former Acadian settlement of Sainte-Anne, and served as meeting place for the viceroy and his Executive Council, balls, and state dinners. In 1890, however, Lieutenant Governor Samuel Leonard Tilley felt the maintenance budget for the house was insufficient and consequently relocated, after which the former viceregal residence took on other roles. From 1896 to 1900, it served as New Brunswick's Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, was a military barracks through World War I, a soldiers' hospital following the war, and, from 1934 to 1988, was the J Division regional headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In 1958, it was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada, and in 1996 it was designated provincially under the Historic Sites Protection Act. Only on 1 July 1999, after two years of extensive renovation and restoration of the structure and its interiors, was the mansion returned to viceregal service in a ceremony including representatives of the Maliseet First Nation, the ancestors of which performed dances on New Year's Day 164 years earlier, both times to demonstrate the importance of the relationship between them and the Crown.


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