David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-council-risteen-building-1.5099481
Fredericton councillors brush up on heritage process before Risteen proposal arrives
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David R. Amos
Methinks our latest Minister of Heritage Mr Gauvin is no doubt very proud of Moncton's efforts to preserve its history Common Sense and the PANB should dictate the same sort of preservation should be done in the Capital City N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Months ago my friend Carl Risteen told me to checkout the history swirling around Anthony Lockwood. Methinks because the Receiver General was such a comical scallywag the cornerstone of Queen Street should certainly be preserved and our history become better known N'esy Pas?
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lockwood_anthony_8E.html
David R. Amos
Reply to @David R. Amos: Deja Vu?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/risteen-heritage-fredericton-1.4993884
David R. Amos
Methinks some folks may enjoy knowing a bit of my conversation that I just had with my friend Carl Risteen N'esy Pas?
In a nutshell Carl said that his home is considered a heritage home and he can't change the colour of even a shingle with Fat Fred City's permission and that the reports of people trying to buy it are pure BS. I told him that he should register with CBC and tell the folks himself Carl said he can't be bothered and was going for a walk and gave me his permission to state this.
Shawn McShane
@David R. Amos Carl Risteen lives in the house that his great-grandfather built adjacent to the building and it is heritage but the 200 year old Risteen building itself is not heritage?
Something smells
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane YUP
David R. Amos
Hmmm
David R. Amos
Methinks everybody knows why I made a few calls today N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
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HMMM "Juan Estepa
gave councillors a refresher course in the process the city will use to
***** a development application for a significant building such as the
Risteen" Methinks Juan Estepa may learn a lesson or two as well N'esy Pas?
Alex Butt
Fredericton; making simple stuff complicated since 1785. Everyone is so concerned about saving this building as a heritage building, yet no one wants to pay for it. Look at the mess that was the Fredericton train station. Abandoned in 1993, sitting dilapidated for years. Everyone cried to save it, but when it came to putting ones money where their mouth is, EVERYONE disappeared, until NB Liqour (meaning we the tax payers) paid to turn it into a liquor store.
If people want to keep this building, then put their money into it and do something! If not, them let someone build the new apartments that will bring some work to this province and make more revenue to NB and Fredericton in property taxes!
David R. Amos
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Reply to @Alex Butt:
Methinks its interesting that you can say what you wish but I can't
offer an opinion to the contrary N'esy Pas?
Jim Cyr
Reply to @Alex Butt:
I'm a huge property-rights guy. But if a city like Fredericton tears
down enough of its old buildings (this one is 200 years old), then some
tourists won't visit. It's as simple as that. In 90% of the cases
involving a really old building that's in decent shape, a private use
for it is eventually found (might take a little while). Owner makes out
okay. In 9% of the cases, no private user comes forward and the
government or a nonprofit has to save it (which is exactly what happened
with the train station). That's okay, because again, you are helping
to keep the tourism dollars flowing (plus it increases the appearance of
the town, and some people really care about that when they're looking
to buy a house and settle down). In 1% of the cases, an old place falls
through the cracks and is torn down. But you want that to be rare.
Just today, Saint John announced they are saving the 1820s courthouse. Fredericton DOES have competition for the "old historic city" tourism dollars.......for example, my family is coming over from Maine this summer to visit either Fredericton or Saint John. Maybe both. Haven't decided yet. We want to visit a quaint, old, small city.....
Just today, Saint John announced they are saving the 1820s courthouse. Fredericton DOES have competition for the "old historic city" tourism dollars.......for example, my family is coming over from Maine this summer to visit either Fredericton or Saint John. Maybe both. Haven't decided yet. We want to visit a quaint, old, small city.....
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jim Cyr:
Methinks considering the history of this property in particular both the
Federal and Provincial Ministers of Heritage should be much concerned
about the possibility of it being destroyed N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Alex Butt: "Fredericton; making simple stuff complicated since 1785"
Methinks the malicious nonsense began in 1784 when the Crown forgot to create a constitution for New Brunswick and never did N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Alex Butt: Methinks its strange that the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism Pablo Rodriguez and his buddy Navdeep Bains, the minister responsible for ACOA have millions for the old court house in Saint John of which there are many throughout Canada but don't care about the possible destruction of the home in Fat Fred City built by Anthony Lockwood one Canada's first Surveyor Generals and the Receiver General of New Brunswick N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/saint-john-courthouse-theatre-company-1.5099774
Fredericton councillors brush up on heritage process before Risteen proposal arrives
Owner of 1820s Risteen building on Queen Street has said he wants apartments on property
Fredericton staff took councillors
through the heritage designation process this week as city hall prepares
for a controversial application that could bring down the old Risteen
building.
It's been publicly talked about in recent months that a developer is looking to tear down the stone building, located at 102 Queen Street.
The 1820s building was one of the first stone-cut buildings in New Brunswick, but it doesn't have a heritage designation.
Owner Gabriel Elzayat has said he wants to put apartments on the property, although he hasn't said his plans include demolition of the building, a former woodworking plant.
The Risteen building at 102 Queen St. goes back to the 1820s and for a long time was home to a thriving woodworking shop. (Provincial Archives)
City staff haven't received an application from the developer yet but said they're expecting one soon.
"I think everybody knows it's coming because it has been out in the media," Juan Estepa, the city's manager of heritage and urban design, told councillors.
"But I think what people don't understand is what the process is, and a lot of people aren't even clear on what's designated or not."
In 2010, the Heritage Conservation Act came into effect, but Estepa said it hasn't been used in Fredericton under the current council, so staff came up with a refresher course.
"Rather than introduce everybody to the process sort of in the heat of the battle, and the heat of a decision needing to be made, we decided to be proactive."
The city has a map of buildings downtown that are colour-coded according to heritage-contributing characteristics.
The Risteen building is green for "significant," which means if an application came in from a developer, staff would issue a cease-work order for up to 60 days to give council a chance to designate the property heritage or not heritage.
If council designates the property as heritage, it would be added to the heritage bylaw area and the property would then be regulated under the preservation review board.
"Any development decision then becomes the purview of the preservation review board and not council."
Juan
Estepa gave councillors a refresher course in the process the city will
use to asses a development application for a significant building such
as the Risteen. (Gary Moore/CBC)
If the
property is not designated as a municipal heritage conservation area,
the temporary order to cease activity would be rescinded and a
demolition permit issued.
A handful of people from the public were at the council-in-committee meeting to see the heritage presentation, including Beth Biggs, a board member with Fredericton Heritage Trust.
Biggs was not impressed with the information she heard.
"It begs to ask who are the people that are doing these assessments. What are their qualifications? It doesn't appear to be transparent at all."
It's been publicly talked about in recent months that a developer is looking to tear down the stone building, located at 102 Queen Street.
The 1820s building was one of the first stone-cut buildings in New Brunswick, but it doesn't have a heritage designation.
Owner Gabriel Elzayat has said he wants to put apartments on the property, although he hasn't said his plans include demolition of the building, a former woodworking plant.
"I think everybody knows it's coming because it has been out in the media," Juan Estepa, the city's manager of heritage and urban design, told councillors.
"But I think what people don't understand is what the process is, and a lot of people aren't even clear on what's designated or not."
In 2010, the Heritage Conservation Act came into effect, but Estepa said it hasn't been used in Fredericton under the current council, so staff came up with a refresher course.
"Rather than introduce everybody to the process sort of in the heat of the battle, and the heat of a decision needing to be made, we decided to be proactive."
The Risteen building is green for "significant," which means if an application came in from a developer, staff would issue a cease-work order for up to 60 days to give council a chance to designate the property heritage or not heritage.
If council designates the property as heritage, it would be added to the heritage bylaw area and the property would then be regulated under the preservation review board.
"Any development decision then becomes the purview of the preservation review board and not council."
A handful of people from the public were at the council-in-committee meeting to see the heritage presentation, including Beth Biggs, a board member with Fredericton Heritage Trust.
Biggs was not impressed with the information she heard.
"It begs to ask who are the people that are doing these assessments. What are their qualifications? It doesn't appear to be transparent at all."
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City staff haven't received an application from the developer yet but said they're expecting one soon.
"I think everybody knows it's coming because it has been out in the media," Juan Estepa, the city's manager of heritage and urban design, told councillors.
"But I think what people don't understand is what the process is, and a lot of people aren't even clear on what's designated or not."
In 2010, the Heritage Conservation Act came into effect, but Estepa said it hasn't been used in Fredericton under the current council, so staff came up with a refresher course.
"Rather than introduce everybody to the process sort of in the heat of the battle, and the heat of a decision needing to be made, we decided to be proactive."
"The city has a map of buildings downtown that are colour-coded according to heritage-contributing characteristics.
The Risteen building is green for "significant," which means if an application came in from a developer, staff would issue a cease-work order for up to 60 days to give council a chance to designate the property heritage or not heritage.
If council designates the property as heritage, it would be added to the heritage bylaw area and the property would then be regulated under the preservation review board.
"Any development decision then becomes the purview of the preservation review board and not council."
http://www.frederictonconventions.ca/events/imagine-fredericton-2/
Imagine Fredericton
Tue, Jun. 14, 2016 6:00pm — 8:00pm
Type of Event: Conference
The City of Fredericton has initiated an exciting new project: the creation of a Growth Strategy and new Municipal Plan. These two planning documents, one to follow the other, will be developed through significant public consultation and will establish a community-based vision and policies to guide the city’s development over the next 25 years.
Website: http://www.imaginefredericton.ca/
Juan Estepa
506-460-2062
juan.estepa@fredericton.ca
"A handful of people from the public were at the council-in-committee meeting to see the heritage presentation, including Beth Biggs, a board member with Fredericton Heritage Trust.
Biggs was not impressed with the information she heard.
"It begs to ask who are the people that are doing these assessments. What are their qualifications? It doesn't appear to be transparent at all."
Methinks it also begs the question who is Beth Biggs because she ain't on their roster N'esy Pas?
https://www.heritagefredericton.org/node/1
Fredericton Heritage Trust is a volunteer non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of the natural, historical, and architectural heritage of the Capital Region of New Brunswick.
The Trust has launched many successful endeavours over the years, including walking tour booklets of both Fredericton and Marysville and a restoration guidebook to Fredericton's residential architecture.
Annually, the Trust presents awards to businesses and individuals for their efforts in restoring and maintaining our architectural heritage. Various educational projects and programs are also ongoing regularly.
We have an active volunteer board and hold monthly meetings, typically at the Provincial Archives. These meetings are open to the public and any interested party is invited to attend.
The Trust welcomes new members and new ideas... Please contact us.
Our Mandate
- To preserve, protect and promote the heritage of Fredericton and area.
- To identify and recognize examples of heritage preservation.
- To educate the public (especially children) as to the importance of our built and natural heritage.
Board Members 2018Executive:President: Richard Bird, Retired Professor of Law, UNB
Past President: Gwendolyn Davies, Professor and Dean Emerita, UNB
Vice President: Currently Vacant
Acting Secretary: Gwendolyn Davies
Treasurer: Trevor Tarrant, CPA, CA, Clark Chevrolet-Cadillac
Board Members:Mary Ann Appleby, B.Sc (Edinb), Nurse, Public Relations
Marion Beyea, Retired Provincial Archivist (NB)
Beth Harris, RNMN, Registered Nurse, Extra Mural Program Fredericton
Jeremy Mouat, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta
Ellen Wilson Messenger, B.Ed., M.Sc (Aud), Heritage Home Owner
Stephen Patterson, Historian
Ian Robertson, architect, B.Arch. (NSTC/DAL), AANB
Cynthia Wallace-Casey, SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow (University of Ottawa)
Advisors:Drummond Bowden, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, UManitoba
Barbara Hughes Campbell, Q.C., Lawyer & Heritage Home Owner
Robert Dallison, Lt. Col. (Ret.)/History Researcher & Author
Hart North, Businessman
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/contacts/contacts_renderer.200999.html
BETH BIGGS
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/risteen-heritage-fredericton-1.4993884
Fate of 1820s stone building in Fredericton causes worry
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David R. Amos
Cheer up Carl the Fat Lady ain't sung yet
Shawn McShane
Developers are learning that
heritage buildings can be money-makers. 80 per cent of millennials
“would rather spend money at businesses supporting efforts to preserve
and protect buildings, architecture and neighbourhoods over those that
don’t. They also choose to shop and eat in “historic downtowns . . .
and places with historic appeal . . . over malls and planned commercial
districts or recently constructed places.”
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane Methinks everybody knows why that I would not bet the farm on your opinions N'esy Pas?
Shawn McShane
@David R. Amos Not my
opinion. A U.S. study commissioned by the National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Edge Research and the American Express Foundation.
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane Methinks you
know what I think of Yankee opinions However I bet you didn't know that
my wife was one of the top travel agents working American Express years
ago N'esy Pas?
Johnny Horton
That’s Gabriel’s style. No respect for his tenants, or history,
He has a bad habit of letting leases expiring and then telling you to get out, a kids any calls or visits to his office she discuss your lease.
He has a bad habit of letting leases expiring and then telling you to get out, a kids any calls or visits to his office she discuss your lease.
Johnny Horton
@Johnny Horton
** avoids (not a kids)
** avoids (not a kids)
David R. Amos
@Johnny Horton Too Funny
Ken Stephens
If someone owns a property
and wants to tear down a very old building like this it's his decision
to make, not ours. Perhaps these people who are upset by this can all
chip in and buy it from him. The way these things work is that
something is there for a while but eventually becomes too old and it
gets replaced, and we end up with more value out of the deal as well.
Johnny Horton
@Ken Stephens
Yep value. That’s all that matters. Gotta Aximize that tax base!
yep money, that’s all that matters. Gotta own every property!
Yep value. That’s all that matters. Gotta Aximize that tax base!
yep money, that’s all that matters. Gotta own every property!
David R. Amos
@Ken Stephens Yea Right
Marcus Kingston
@Ken Stephens - It's clear
that some people in Fredericton seem to care very little about the built
heritage that surrounds us, and makes our city unique. However, there
are equally those who do care. The issue shouldn't always come down to
how much tax revenue can be gained from a new building. We have a moral
obligation to retain certain structures for the enjoyment of future
generations. I'm not against all new builds, it can be a part of growing
a strong and vibrant city I agree. So too is maintaining what's already
here. Perhaps we should tear down Christ Church Cathedral and put the
new Starbucks there instead of in Kings Place? It could draw more people
to that area of the city.
Respectfully
MK
Respectfully
MK
David R. Amos
@Marcus Kingston Hmmm
Mack Leigh
One thing I greatly admire
about many European countries, Great Britain and New England, USA is
that they preserve their historical buildings, statues, trees, etc.
..... Way to quick now to tear down, cut down or remove important pieces
of our history.... Hopefully they will be able to save this landmark..
Johnny Horton
@Mack Leigh
Gabriel is buying up and taking all the land in the area. Not much chance he’ll save it, or sell it t a preservation group.
Gabriel is buying up and taking all the land in the area. Not much chance he’ll save it, or sell it t a preservation group.
David R. Amos
@Johnny Horton So you say
Mack Leigh
We have become a ...throw a way ..... society ....... No thought to the preservation of anything..
David R. Amos
@Mack Leigh YUP
Alex Butt
@Mack Leigh Yes we have
become a disposable society, but we have to face facts that New
Brunswick is broke and unfortunately there are bigger issues that
require funding!
Mack Leigh
@Alex Butt
There are ways to preserve our historical buildings and turn them into money makers.... Erasing our historical buildings is a sad statement as to what society has become and the direction it is headed..
There are ways to preserve our historical buildings and turn them into money makers.... Erasing our historical buildings is a sad statement as to what society has become and the direction it is headed..
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David R. Amos
@Mack Leigh YUP
Shawn McShane
@Alex Butt Historical places
bring in tourists and locals. To be honest I am sick of beautiful old
buildings full of character being torn down and replaced with cheap
looking construction with a 40 yr life. Why not turn the building into
apartments? Sell them. Sell a piece of history.
Louie Youssef
@Mack Leigh What's sad about
it? It's sad to move forward? I don't think anyone who puts up a
building thinks it will be around forever.
Shawn McShane
@Louie Youssef Obviously the Pharisees did, those pyramids are still around.
Jim Cyr
@Louie Youssef But Mack's
point is valid: we absolutely have become a throwaway society. In
fact, the expectation now for any building put up by a government entity
is that it will last 40 years. (It's right in the specs/contracts). 40
years!! That number used to be at least 75 years when I was a kid.
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane Methinks you meant the Pharaohs N'esy Pas?
Shawn McShane
@David R. Amos Lols Yes Pharaohs
Alex Butt
@Shawn McShane I agree but
we have to face the fact that NB is broke, and not that many people
travel to Fredericton to see the old buildings. Unless someone with lots
of cash is willing to buy it, then we shouldn't complain that someone
wants the land to build something and make money.
David R. Amos
@Alex Butt Methinks you are a bit redundant N'esy Pas?
Alex Butt
I love the heritage idea, and
everyone is all for keeping such buildings, yet no one is willing to
face the hard facts that it will cost lots of money and very few are
willing to put their money where their mouth is. Perfect example was the
Fredericton train station. Everyone cried to keep the falling apart eye
sore, and who ended up paying for it? The tax payers did. Time to wake
up and realize that NB is broke and falling apart and need to set real
priorities!
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David R. Amos
@Alex Butt "Time to wake up and realize that NB is broke and falling apart"
Methinks we got the governments we deserve because we overslept N'esy Pas?
Methinks we got the governments we deserve because we overslept N'esy Pas?
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David R. Amos
@Alex Butt Oh My My Methinks you should ask yourself why my reply to you was blocked N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@Alex Butt "Perfect example
was the Fredericton train station. Everyone cried to keep the falling
apart eye sore, and who ended up paying for it? The tax payers did."
Methinks the Irving Clan didn't cry N'esy Pas?
Methinks the Irving Clan didn't cry N'esy Pas?
Grant Buote
@David R. Amos - quick question: why do you keep say "N'esy Pas"? What, exactly , are you trying to say?
Ian Scott
@Alex Butt And now its a booze store. At our expense.
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David R. Amos
@Grant Buote Its Chiac
Now Go Figure Who is crazy and who is not
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lockwood_anthony_8E.html
However, the political crisis following Lieutenant Governor Smyth’s death on 27 March provided the occasion, if not the inducement, for Lockwood’s spectacular descent into madness.
An interim president of the Council being required, George Leonard*, the octogenarian senior member, was first offered the position, which he declined on the grounds of age. Despite a challenge by supporters of Christopher Billopp, Ward Chipman* assumed the post of administrator on 1 April. The challenges continued however. Lockwood attended the Council meetings on 30 April and on 1 May. Thereafter he absented himself and for the next few weeks his whereabouts are uncertain. By 24 May he had persuaded Leonard to assert his right to the presidency “in the hope that it would produce tranquillity in the province.” Ostensibly to assist in that purpose, Lockwood appointed himself as Leonard’s civil aide-de-camp and inspecting field officer, as well as acting secretary. On 25 May he attempted to disseminate Leonard’s proclamation in Saint John – while at the same time writing a letter to Chipman offering terms for his, Lockwood’s, support. From 25 to 30 May Lockwood behaved with erratic violence in Saint John: issuing threats, brawling, taking up residence in Government House, and gathering an appreciative mob. Dr Paddock attended him with scant success. By the time he returned to Fredericton on 30 May, Lockwood was approaching collapse; on the steamboat General Smyth he scribbled a desperate note to Chipman requesting release from his present public offices since his “ailment” was “subject to increase from confinement.”
Now Go Figure Who is crazy and who is not
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lockwood_anthony_8E.html
However, the political crisis following Lieutenant Governor Smyth’s death on 27 March provided the occasion, if not the inducement, for Lockwood’s spectacular descent into madness.
An interim president of the Council being required, George Leonard*, the octogenarian senior member, was first offered the position, which he declined on the grounds of age. Despite a challenge by supporters of Christopher Billopp, Ward Chipman* assumed the post of administrator on 1 April. The challenges continued however. Lockwood attended the Council meetings on 30 April and on 1 May. Thereafter he absented himself and for the next few weeks his whereabouts are uncertain. By 24 May he had persuaded Leonard to assert his right to the presidency “in the hope that it would produce tranquillity in the province.” Ostensibly to assist in that purpose, Lockwood appointed himself as Leonard’s civil aide-de-camp and inspecting field officer, as well as acting secretary. On 25 May he attempted to disseminate Leonard’s proclamation in Saint John – while at the same time writing a letter to Chipman offering terms for his, Lockwood’s, support. From 25 to 30 May Lockwood behaved with erratic violence in Saint John: issuing threats, brawling, taking up residence in Government House, and gathering an appreciative mob. Dr Paddock attended him with scant success. By the time he returned to Fredericton on 30 May, Lockwood was approaching collapse; on the steamboat General Smyth he scribbled a desperate note to Chipman requesting release from his present public offices since his “ailment” was “subject to increase from confinement.”
David R. Amos
@Grant Buote continued
The Council considered Lockwood’s state of mind at their meeting on 31 May, hearing depositions from the doctors who had treated him and from the mayor of Saint John. The following day Lockwood set up a table in Fredericton square, at which he drank coffee, issued proclamations, and reacted pugnaciously to the crowd, before taking horse and riding about the streets firing pistols and declaring himself called to assume the government of the province. By nightfall Lockwood had been arrested and placed in the Fredericton jail. The Council received further evidence from the sheriff of York County on 2 June and were “fully satisfied” of Lockwood’s derangement. Chipman appointed a commission de lunatico inquirendo that day and by 5 June it had determined that Lockwood was legally mad, and had been since 19 May. On 7 June his wife and son petitioned for a committee of custody over his person and estate, which was immediately granted.
When George Shore, Lockwood’s replacement, examined the surveyor general’s office, he found confusion, mutilated documents, and disarray which would take “two extra employees five years to straighten out.” Furthermore, the discrepancy between Lockwood’s receipts as receiver general and the office’s bank deposit amounted to more than £2,000. Although he was moved from the jail to what was, in effect, house-arrest in September, Lockwood and his family had to suffer the public sale of his real and personal estate as the custodial committee sought to recover the missing public monies.
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David R. Amos
@Alex Butt "Time to wake up and realize that NB is broke and falling apart and need to set real priorities!"
Methinks history can repeat itself The province has seized control of the Lockwood house before N'esy Pas?
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lockwood_anthony_8E.html
The following day Lockwood set up a table in Fredericton square, at which he drank coffee, issued proclamations, and reacted pugnaciously to the crowd, before taking horse and riding about the streets firing pistols and declaring himself called to assume the government of the province. By nightfall Lockwood had been arrested and placed in the Fredericton jail. The Council received further evidence from the sheriff of York County on 2 June and were “fully satisfied” of Lockwood’s derangement. Chipman appointed a commission de lunatico inquirendo that day and by 5 June it had determined that Lockwood was legally mad, and had been since 19 May. On 7 June his wife and son petitioned for a committee of custody over his person and estate, which was immediately granted.
When George Shore, Lockwood’s replacement, examined the surveyor general’s office, he found confusion, mutilated documents, and disarray which would take “two extra employees five years to straighten out.” Furthermore, the discrepancy between Lockwood’s receipts as receiver general and the office’s bank deposit amounted to more than £2,000. Although he was moved from the jail to what was, in effect, house-arrest in September, Lockwood and his family had to suffer the public sale of his real and personal estate as the custodial committee sought to recover the missing public monies.
Methinks history can repeat itself The province has seized control of the Lockwood house before N'esy Pas?
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lockwood_anthony_8E.html
The following day Lockwood set up a table in Fredericton square, at which he drank coffee, issued proclamations, and reacted pugnaciously to the crowd, before taking horse and riding about the streets firing pistols and declaring himself called to assume the government of the province. By nightfall Lockwood had been arrested and placed in the Fredericton jail. The Council received further evidence from the sheriff of York County on 2 June and were “fully satisfied” of Lockwood’s derangement. Chipman appointed a commission de lunatico inquirendo that day and by 5 June it had determined that Lockwood was legally mad, and had been since 19 May. On 7 June his wife and son petitioned for a committee of custody over his person and estate, which was immediately granted.
When George Shore, Lockwood’s replacement, examined the surveyor general’s office, he found confusion, mutilated documents, and disarray which would take “two extra employees five years to straighten out.” Furthermore, the discrepancy between Lockwood’s receipts as receiver general and the office’s bank deposit amounted to more than £2,000. Although he was moved from the jail to what was, in effect, house-arrest in September, Lockwood and his family had to suffer the public sale of his real and personal estate as the custodial committee sought to recover the missing public monies.
David R. Amos
@Grant Buote Methinks you
should ask Fat Fred City's infamous blogger or his buddy the Mayor to
explain my Chiac to you N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@Grant Buote Methinksin
return I should ask an Urban Planning Technologist if he recalls why I
ran in Fat Fred City for a seat in the 39th Parliament Trust that Chucky
and Mikey know N'esy Pas?
Emilien Forest
He owns it, he should be able
to do with the way he wants. The Fredericton elite wanna be's should
learn to respect that. Enjoy your herbal tea now...
David R. Amos
@Emilien Forest How do you
spell R.E.S.P.E.C.T ??? Methinks you and your foes the Fredericton
elite wanna be's have no clue as to what I am up to N'esy Pas?
Marc LeBlanc
@Emilien Forest There should be some kind of prize for this post!!!
Finally someone with my sense of humor...now watch we'll get bumped
Finally someone with my sense of humor...now watch we'll get bumped
David R. Amos
@Marc LeBlanc I have already been bumped twice
Louie Youssef
Those properties were listed,
and for sale for a very long time. Anyone who wanted to save them, or
do anything else with them, could have bought them. Just because
something is old, it doesn't mean it should stay around forever.
Why should anyone have the right to dictate what all future generations do with private property? There are people around who just love to have a cause to champion, and that's fair. But when someone spends their time, money and energy taking a risk on something, it's not right to try and change the rules of the game, mid game. If tearing down old, inefficient, obsolete buildings was prevented, New York city would never have been built.
It's called progress. Getting rid of something to build something better, that will provide badly needed housing, shouldn't be discouraged.
Why should anyone have the right to dictate what all future generations do with private property? There are people around who just love to have a cause to champion, and that's fair. But when someone spends their time, money and energy taking a risk on something, it's not right to try and change the rules of the game, mid game. If tearing down old, inefficient, obsolete buildings was prevented, New York city would never have been built.
It's called progress. Getting rid of something to build something better, that will provide badly needed housing, shouldn't be discouraged.
Emilien Forest
@Louie Youssef
Well said!
Well said!
Jason jeandron
@Louie Youssef It's that
attitude that saw corporations dump hazardous waste into watercourses,
destroy wetlands and pollute the atmosphere a few decades ago. Heritage
is a community asset which provides well documented advantages when
preserved. Improved community, increased economic benefits from taxes,
tourism and jobs creation. And while they fail to follow it, the City
has committed to conserving our heritage in their Municipal Plan. As
you'll be aware, the City/Province/Nation often has a say in how
development occurs, to prevent the loss of life, environment and
increasingly heritage. Allowing developers to destroy iur heritage, that
others have helped to survive for nearly 2 centuries in this case, is
short-sighted. There are other places that developers can build in that
will not destroy our non-renewable heritage resources.
Marcus Kingston
@Louie Youssef@Louie Youssef I
respect your response, however I also respectfully disagree with your
response. This building is old yes, but it has extreme heritage value to
the city and the province. People come to Fredericton to see these
structures and admire their craftsmanship and design. The New York City
that you speak of actually 'landmarks' many of their historic structures
as the realize their importance to the history and culture of their
city.
If city planners in Fredericton had had their way in the 1960's/70's then the entirety of Queen Street including City Hall would have been demolished. How would this have benefited Fredericton in the long run? Are you aware of how many tour busses stop outside of City Hall on any given day in the summer months?
Last summer we lost two 'beautiful' yellow homes on Regent Street, heritage homes that could have easily been saved, when there was an open lot just up the street on the corner of Charlotte and Regent. Tourists will be less and less inclined to visit Fredericton if we keep erasing it's past. I'm all for 'progress ' as you say, however progress isn't always 'moving forward'. I welcome new builds, many of us do, but why can they not be built on existing lots that are already vacant? Or put in places that do not already have historic structures.
Heritage should belong to us all, not simply those who can afford to own it.
If I had had $7,000,000 then I would have purchased all of these properties and saved them. However only a few people can afford to do such things. I'm sure no one jumped on these purchases because no one would have assumed that a buyer would demolish them. St. Dunstan's was turned into apartments as was York House, restoration is possible, you can mix old and new.
Respectfully,
MK
If city planners in Fredericton had had their way in the 1960's/70's then the entirety of Queen Street including City Hall would have been demolished. How would this have benefited Fredericton in the long run? Are you aware of how many tour busses stop outside of City Hall on any given day in the summer months?
Last summer we lost two 'beautiful' yellow homes on Regent Street, heritage homes that could have easily been saved, when there was an open lot just up the street on the corner of Charlotte and Regent. Tourists will be less and less inclined to visit Fredericton if we keep erasing it's past. I'm all for 'progress ' as you say, however progress isn't always 'moving forward'. I welcome new builds, many of us do, but why can they not be built on existing lots that are already vacant? Or put in places that do not already have historic structures.
Heritage should belong to us all, not simply those who can afford to own it.
If I had had $7,000,000 then I would have purchased all of these properties and saved them. However only a few people can afford to do such things. I'm sure no one jumped on these purchases because no one would have assumed that a buyer would demolish them. St. Dunstan's was turned into apartments as was York House, restoration is possible, you can mix old and new.
Respectfully,
MK
Louie Youssef
@Marcus Kingston You're
making an awful lot of assumptions. Two homes were destroyed, you have
no idea what condition they were in, or what was needed to make them
efficient. I do, because I owned them.
Now 16 families will be able to live where previously 3 could. You take a very simplistic view of development. It's not up to just one person to say "oh, there's some vacant property, I think I'll have it and build something". That's not how it works. Not everything can be saved, for both practical and financial reasons.
Cities are growing, and everyone has a right to live in them. Just because a few people think something is pretty, it doesn't mean that saving that house, and denying many others the right to live in a city is the best thing to do. It's not right to target a specific development that doesn't have any restrictions of demolition on it after the fact. That's a policy that needs to be in place before investment is made.
I'm against it, but I respect what the majority says. That's how a democratic society works.
Now 16 families will be able to live where previously 3 could. You take a very simplistic view of development. It's not up to just one person to say "oh, there's some vacant property, I think I'll have it and build something". That's not how it works. Not everything can be saved, for both practical and financial reasons.
Cities are growing, and everyone has a right to live in them. Just because a few people think something is pretty, it doesn't mean that saving that house, and denying many others the right to live in a city is the best thing to do. It's not right to target a specific development that doesn't have any restrictions of demolition on it after the fact. That's a policy that needs to be in place before investment is made.
I'm against it, but I respect what the majority says. That's how a democratic society works.
Shawn McShane
@Louie Youssef New York City
held onto a significant number of structures that date all the way back
to the middle of the 17th century.
Louie Youssef
@Jason jeandron What is
heritage exactly? Is it any house that's old? Isn't a house just
something made of sticks and stones? I would say that what makes a home
important are the memories that are made inside of it.
Those memories are important to the people who made them. Beauty is subjective. Some people may like old architecture, some people may like contemporary. There is no right or wrong. To me, people should be able to do what they like with private property, while respecting the laws that are in place.
As far as pollution, wetlands, etc, I'm not sure why that's part of this commentary. But that's your right.
Those memories are important to the people who made them. Beauty is subjective. Some people may like old architecture, some people may like contemporary. There is no right or wrong. To me, people should be able to do what they like with private property, while respecting the laws that are in place.
As far as pollution, wetlands, etc, I'm not sure why that's part of this commentary. But that's your right.
Shawn McShane
@Louie Youssef Do all the
neighbors appreciate having 16 families, the noise and traffic? Did it
make their own property value go down?
Dundonald Street area property owners say they have enough apartments on their street and they don't want another...Elzayat said he will make two-bedroom units to entice families. "A single family home or an apartment, they're family dwellings. Maybe you should change your thinking on that." - May 20th, 2010
Dundonald Street area property owners say they have enough apartments on their street and they don't want another...Elzayat said he will make two-bedroom units to entice families. "A single family home or an apartment, they're family dwellings. Maybe you should change your thinking on that." - May 20th, 2010
Jim Cyr
@Louie Youssef Louie, your
point is valid. However, the building is not 100 years old. It's not
even 150 years old. It's 200 years old. And we are not Europe; we have
very few old buildings.
Jim Cyr
@Jim Cyr Oh, and Louie, one
more thing: functional apartments can literally be built almost
anywhere. That's just a fact of life.
David R. Amos
@Emilien Forest Nope
David R. Amos
@Marcus Kingston Methinks that you have lots of time to type but not to talk N'esy Pas?
Roy Nicholl
@Louie Youssef wrote
"It's called progress. Getting rid of something to build something
better, that will provide badly needed housing, shouldn't be
discouraged.: @Louie Youssef wrote
The problem is that what we are building may be newer, but is not always better. Nor is it even significantly more efficient. Very few of the apartment buildings erected in the City in the past 25 years will see a 100th birthday let alone 200.
With respect to the Risteen Building (Significance of the original portion of the building being it was the first cut stone building in the City (perhaps province) and was the home of New Brunswick's first Surveyor General), I understand Gabriel's conundrum. I had looked at this building (and the surrounding properties) a year or two earlier with the intention of incorporating the Lockwood house into a Passivhaus mixed-use complex, but, in the end, could not reduce the risk sufficiently to move forward.
Colin Seeley
Too bad. Gallant and the money tree is gone.
David R. Amos
@Colin Seeley Nope
Here is the problem with all
of the comments on this article: People are posting their opinions about
the fate of a property, and trying to cast the owner in a bad light,
when in reality he is not doing anything wrong.
To the people who are calling this building a “heritage building” – if that is so, why does it not have a designation? Shouldn’t that be your avenue, trying to get a designation, rather than badmouthing law-abiding property owners?
To those who object to building higher density housing, shouldn’t your avenue be to change the zoning bylaws if you want to prevent more apartments in the city, not bashing property owners who are not breaking any rules?
And finally, what makes any of you authorities on what has value and what doesn’t? Your own opinion? Because it doesn’t seem like it is backed by any democratic process.
To the people who are calling this building a “heritage building” – if that is so, why does it not have a designation? Shouldn’t that be your avenue, trying to get a designation, rather than badmouthing law-abiding property owners?
To those who object to building higher density housing, shouldn’t your avenue be to change the zoning bylaws if you want to prevent more apartments in the city, not bashing property owners who are not breaking any rules?
And finally, what makes any of you authorities on what has value and what doesn’t? Your own opinion? Because it doesn’t seem like it is backed by any democratic process.
Jim Cyr
@ It's a tourism thing.
Tear down enough of these old buildings, to put up bland apartment
blocks, and pretty soon people like me stop wanting to visit
Fredericton. 1,000 people per year who didn't spend that $1,000 in
Fredericton equals a loss per year of one million dollars . Ten million
dollars over ten years. It's all about the money: does Fredericton
want that ten million dollars, or not?? (If it had no competition, then
of course the question would be moot. However, it DOES have
competition in the "semi-quaint old cities in New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia" category.....Saint John, Moncton and Halifax.)
Shawn McShane
@ Anonymous City councils
change zoning by-laws to ALLOW higher density in order to collect more
money and to collect on NEW building permits. The property
owner/developer goes to the the same councils, the developer hears the
public complaints and doesn't care as long has he gets approval from
the council. He gives not one whit about the public and neither does
the council. Follow the money.
David R. Amos
@ Methinks we all should who are you N'esy Pas?
Jim Cyr
Let me just as you: what kind
of city tears down a 200 year-old, perfectly functional building to put
up APARTMENTS?? A city that has tons of 200 year-old buildings, I
guess.......
Shawn McShane
@Jim Cyr Same kind of city that tears town beautiful mature trees at at Officer’s Square against the wishes of the public?
David R. Amos
@Jim Cyr Methinks that thou doth jest too much N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane And methinks that thou doth protest too much N'esy Pas?
John Young
Fredericton is turning into
pressboard paradise. Structurally sound old buildings systemically torn
down for profit and greed. Officer’s Square is being converted to Coney
Island, while Main St. looks like Las Vegas Strip. Our city is losing
its historical identity and beauty.
David R. Amos
@John Young YUP
David R. Amos
Methinks some folks may enjoy knowing a bit of my conversation that I just had with my friend Carl Risteen N'esy Pas?
In a nutshell Carl said that his home is considered a heritage home and he can't change the colour of even a shingle with Fat Fred City's permission and that the reports of people trying to buy it are pure BS. I told him that he should register with CBC and tell the folks himself Carl said he can't be bothered and was going for a walk and gave me his permission to state this.
In a nutshell Carl said that his home is considered a heritage home and he can't change the colour of even a shingle with Fat Fred City's permission and that the reports of people trying to buy it are pure BS. I told him that he should register with CBC and tell the folks himself Carl said he can't be bothered and was going for a walk and gave me his permission to state this.
Shawn McShane
@David R. Amos Carl Risteen
lives in the house that his great-grandfather built adjacent to the
building and it is heritage but the 200 year old Risteen building
itself is not heritage?
Something smells
Something smells
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane YUP
Ray Bungay
Very simple to per like
Heritage enthusiast Mr. Marcus Kingston, is to find out the value of
that property now, plus what the value is now, plus the value of the
property after the new construction is complete minus the demolition
and then make an offer to buy it. I not then leave the owner alone to do
what he/they want to do with it. We see this almost yearly here in
Saint John most recently the old falling apart Jelly Bean homes and old
Sydney Street Court House. Public monies should no be used to save old
buildings rather private money should if it can be raised and a specific
time frame to fix up or in the end tearing it down. Anyone in
Fredericton with very deep pockets? No one showed up in Saint John for
the Jelly Bean homes and no private developer has come forth for the
court house.
David R. Amos
@Ray Bungay Methinks folks should follow the money right now not after the fact N'esy Pas?
Bob Smith
For those crying and moaning
about this, put your money where talk is directed. Want to save the
"historic buildings" in Fredericton and St. John? Buy them or allow
developers to fix the properties up without red tape and complaints when
a single brick is moved or replaced. Media always finds folks like
Kingston to interview about this but these same individuals seem to have
only words and no money..
David R. Amos
@Bob Smith Methinks Mr Higgs and his Minister of Tourism, Heritage and Culture
Robert Gauvin as Minister of Tourism, Heritage and Culture should step up to the plate and classify it a "historic building" It is located in the Capital District N'esy Pas?
Robert Gauvin as Minister of Tourism, Heritage and Culture should step up to the plate and classify it a "historic building" It is located in the Capital District N'esy Pas?
Roy Nicholl
@Bob Smith
Some of us are doing just that.
Some of us are doing just that.
Trevis L. Kingston
North America has no "old" buildings.
1492...was the starting date of 4 sided structures as we know them on this continent.
A 200 year old structure here is socially as valuable as a 2000 year old Italian Cathedral.
Canadians travel to the four corners of the world to see what?....old buildings !
But we will never have any for tourists to see if we tear them all down.
People pay good money to see Kings Landing and the Acadian Village. (1783 plus.)
Fredericton...the City of Stately...apartment buildings?
1492...was the starting date of 4 sided structures as we know them on this continent.
A 200 year old structure here is socially as valuable as a 2000 year old Italian Cathedral.
Canadians travel to the four corners of the world to see what?....old buildings !
But we will never have any for tourists to see if we tear them all down.
People pay good money to see Kings Landing and the Acadian Village. (1783 plus.)
Fredericton...the City of Stately...apartment buildings?
Harold Benson
@Trevis L. Kingston I'll trade ya
David R. Amos
@Harold Benson "Fredericton...the City of Stately...apartment buildings?"
Methinks Mayor Mikey and his cohorts no doubt like the sound of that Perhaps they will change Fat Fred City's slogan N'esy Pas?
Methinks Mayor Mikey and his cohorts no doubt like the sound of that Perhaps they will change Fat Fred City's slogan N'esy Pas?
Shawn McShane
That building is a brick
schitt house. Solid. So replace it with another particle board
apartment? There was a developer in Moncton who did the
opposite...Heritage Developments Ltd?.
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane Methinks the
latest Minister of Heritage Mr Gauvin is no doubt very proud of
Moncton's efforts to preserve it history N'esy Pas?
Content disabled.
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane Methinks the folks should checkout the history swirling around the Lockwood House N'esy Pas?
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lockwood_anthony_8E.html
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lockwood_anthony_8E.html
Harold Benson
Git them Gagetown boys up here with one of them newfangled tanks. Problem solved, training to boot.
David R. Amos
@Harold Benson Methinks Sam does not agree with such nonsense N'esy Pas?
David R. Amos
Carl Risteen told me to
checkout the history swirling around Anthony Lockwood. Methinks because
the Receiver General was such a comical scallywag the cornerstone of
Queen Street should certainly be preserved and our history become better
known N'esy Pas?
Content disabled.
David R. Amos
The Fat Lady is about to sing Carl I trust that you cheered up and got a chuckle out of the comments
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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:29:19 -0400
Subject: YO Marcus Kingston I just called but you were too busy having coffee
to talk to me about your concerns about the Risteen building
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However I did tell what I was up to Correct?
Perhaps Chucky Lebalnc and his cohorts will take up your battles with
Fat Fred City with his buddy Premier Blaine Higgs and Hon. Robert
Gauvin in particular N'esy Pas?
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number of procedures that can result in different types of heritage
designations. Depending on the level and nature of significance,
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Fate of 1820s stone building in Fredericton causes worry
Owner wants to put up new apartments on property in downtown Fredericton
Concern is growing for an old stone building in downtown Fredericton, once the home of a thriving woodworking factory and now possibly headed for demolition.
The Risteen building at the corner of Queen and Smythe streets, the first cut stone building in New Brunswick, could be torn down to make way for a new development.
Gabriel Elzayat says he wants to put apartments on the property.
The prospect saddens Carl Risteen, great-grandson of Joseph Risteen, who took the building over in the 1870s.
"This building here is the cornerstone basically of Queen Street, so it's the first house in Queen Street," Risteen said.
He still lives in the house that his great-grandfather built adjacent to the building.
It was built in the 1820s by Anthony Lockwood, surveyor general of New Brunswick. When Joseph Ristine took it over, he created the Risteen Sash and Door factory.
"My great-grandfather bought the burned-out shell in about 1870 or thereabouts and fixed up the interior and built the big extension on the back — the big wooden part on the back — for his woodworking factory," Risteen said.
The products of that factory can still be found in the finishings and doorways of the New Brunswick Legislature, said Risteen.
He said he's not sure whether the building will be torn down or salvaged, but he's open to ideas about incorporating it into his new development.
The city said it hasn't received an application for development yet, but tenants are already on the move.
Ross Davidson, whose kitchen supply shop has been in the building for decades, has been told to vacate by the end of February.
"We got a notice from our landlord that the property was going to be redeveloped and that was it," Davidson said.
Heritage enthusiast Marcus Kingston wants to find a way to save it.
"It's been sitting on the spot for … nearly 200 years and it deserves to stay," he said.
Despite its history, there's no heritage designation to protect the Risteen building, which means developers are free to do whatever they want with it.
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http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lockwood_anthony_8E.html
LOCKWOOD, ANTHONY, naval officer, hydrographer, surveyor, office holder, and politician; b. c.
1775 in England; he had one son, also named Anthony, who was born in
1804; m. 11 May 1819 Mrs Harriet Lee of Saint John, N.B.; buried
25 Jan. 1855 in Stepney (London), England.
Anthony Lockwood joined
the Royal Navy in 1791, holding the ranks of midshipman and master’s
mate before being made a master of the Jason, on which he served from 20 May 1797 to 25 Feb. 1799. He was master of the Crescent
between 25 April 1799 and 26 July 1801, during which time he surveyed
Curaçao and part of the Spanish Main. Illness then interrupted his naval
career until July 1804, but over the next two years he conducted
surveys of Cap Ferrat, France, La Coruña, Spain, and Falmouth harbour,
England, as well as making an incomplete survey of the Channel Islands.
On 1 July 1807 Lockwood
was appointed acting master attendant at the naval yard in Bridgetown,
Barbados, by Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane. He
retained this position until the beginning of 1814, when he commenced
surveys on the coasts of British North America. During the next four
years, sailing the sloop Examiner and based near Halifax,
Lockwood made extensive marine surveys of Nova Scotia and Grand Manan
Island, N.B., in addition to producing a chart of the Saint John
harbour. His last Admiralty chart was certified at the Hydrographic
Office in London on 25 March 1818.
Seeking post-war preferment, in 1818 Lockwood published in London, at his own expense, A brief description of Nova Scotia, with plates of the principal harbors, which contained fulsome dedications to the lieutenant governor of the colony, Lord Dalhousie [Ramsay*], and officers of its government, especially Surveyor General Charles Morris*,
who had already employed Lockwood as a map-maker.
On 25 Feb. 1819, with
the written support of Commander Charles Bullen, Lockwood petitioned
the colonial secretary, Lord Bathurst, for the position of surveyor
general of New Brunswick. Seven weeks earlier, however,
Lieutenant Governor George Stracey Smyth*
had recommended George Shore, then acting surveyor general, for the
appointment. Receiving no reply, Smyth confirmed his recommendation by
letter to Bathurst dated 25 March. This, too, Bathurst ignored,
appointing Lockwood on 23 April 1819 – a fact unknown to Smyth until
Lockwood presented himself in Fredericton that July.
While passing through Saint John en route, Lockwood had encountered a shipload of Welsh emigrants from the snow Albion,
for whom he issued location tickets on his arrival in the capital. This
action, taken even before he had introduced himself to Smyth and his
Council, proved to be a significant initiative in forming settlement
policy in New Brunswick. By August, Lockwood had assisted in founding
the Cardigan Society, to aid the Welsh settlement of that name; it was
in turn quickly absorbed by the Fredericton Emigrant Society of which he
became secretary.
Lockwood’s exertions
during his first months in New Brunswick were impressive. Before taking
his oath for the Council, which he automatically joined as surveyor
general, he had written to Bathurst advising that the province be
surveyed into sections. He took his place on the Council on 13 October,
and found time that same fall to conduct the first survey of a canal
route through the Chignecto Isthmus, which evidently won him valuable
support among the Saint John merchants. On 16 December he proposed to
the Council that he run a new survey of the boundaries of Kings, Queens,
and Westmorland counties. During 1820 he surveyed 84 lots for emigrants
on Cape Tormentine and built them a road to the Gaspereau River, as
well as surveying another road between the Nerepis and Oromocto rivers.
On 22 July of that year the Council heard Lockwood’s report on a land
grant to the Micmac band on the Richibucto River. He submitted
recommendations for further emigrant lots in Shepody Road at the Council
meeting on 5 October.
After such a vigorous
introduction, Lockwood apparently withdrew into the routine conduct of
his office, though by June 1822, it appears, he was appointed receiver
general of casual revenues in addition to the post he already held.
Perhaps his periods of frantic activity followed by ones of relative
inactivity were ominous. In the early fall of 1822 Lockwood first
consulted Dr Thomas Emerson*
of Fredericton and then received treatment from Dr Thomas Paddock of
Saint John for mental illness of some sort. He had recovered
sufficiently, nevertheless, to attend nine meetings of the Council
between 18 Jan. and 13 March 1823, on the latter occasion presenting a
plan of the Richibucto River, which displayed town reserves, and another
for the Buctouche River. However, the political crisis following
Lieutenant Governor Smyth’s death on 27 March provided the occasion, if
not the inducement, for Lockwood’s spectacular descent into madness.
An interim president of the Council being required, George Leonard*,
the octogenarian senior member, was first offered the position, which
he declined on the grounds of age. Despite a challenge by supporters of
Christopher Billopp, Ward Chipman*
assumed the post of administrator on 1 April. The challenges continued
however. Lockwood attended the Council meetings on 30 April and on
1 May. Thereafter he absented himself and for the next few weeks his
whereabouts are uncertain. By 24 May he had persuaded Leonard to assert
his right to the presidency “in the hope that it would produce
tranquillity in the province.” Ostensibly to assist in that purpose,
Lockwood appointed himself as Leonard’s civil aide-de-camp and
inspecting field officer, as well as acting secretary. On 25 May he
attempted to disseminate Leonard’s proclamation in Saint John – while at
the same time writing a letter to Chipman offering terms for his,
Lockwood’s, support. From 25 to 30 May Lockwood behaved with erratic
violence in Saint John: issuing threats, brawling, taking up residence
in Government House, and gathering an appreciative mob. Dr Paddock
attended him with scant success. By the time he returned to Fredericton
on 30 May, Lockwood was approaching collapse; on the steamboat General Smyth
he scribbled a desperate note to Chipman requesting release from his
present public offices since his “ailment” was “subject to increase from
confinement.”
The Council considered
Lockwood’s state of mind at their meeting on 31 May, hearing depositions
from the doctors who had treated him and from the mayor of Saint John.
The following day Lockwood set up a table in Fredericton square, at
which he drank coffee, issued proclamations, and reacted pugnaciously to
the crowd, before taking horse and riding about the streets firing
pistols and declaring himself called to assume the government of the
province. By nightfall Lockwood had been arrested and placed in the
Fredericton jail. The Council received further evidence from the sheriff
of York County on 2 June and were “fully satisfied” of Lockwood’s
derangement. Chipman appointed a commission de lunatico inquirendo
that day and by 5 June it had determined that Lockwood was legally mad,
and had been since 19 May. On 7 June his wife and son petitioned for a
committee of custody over his person and estate, which was immediately
granted.
When George Shore,
Lockwood’s replacement, examined the surveyor general’s office, he found
confusion, mutilated documents, and disarray which would take “two
extra employees five years to straighten out.” Furthermore, the
discrepancy between Lockwood’s receipts as receiver general and the
office’s bank deposit amounted to more than £2,000. Although he was
moved from the jail to what was, in effect, house-arrest in September,
Lockwood and his family had to suffer the public sale of his real and
personal estate as the custodial committee sought to recover the missing
public monies.
Throughout his
confinement Lockwood petitioned for his liberty. But it was not until
10 Nov. 1825 that a further commission of inquiry, appointed by
Lieutenant Governor Sir Howard Douglas*,
declared him “restored to his understanding.” Soon after his release he
returned with his wife to England, where he continued to receive a £150
annual pension from the government of’ New Brunswick until his death.
Anthony Lockwood’s respite from suffering was only brief. “At times
subject to fits of insanity” until 1836, he probably spent some of the
last years of his life in the Bethnal Green Lunatic Asylum in London.
Anthony Lockwood prepared A
brief description of Nova Scotia, with plates of the principal harbors;
including a particular account of the island of Grand Manan (London, 1818). His chart of Saint John harbour was published under the title Mouth of the River St. John
([London], 1818; a copy is available in the British Library (London),
Dept. of Printed Books); a photograph of this chart is in the PANB’s map
collection, H2-203.29-1818.
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12, packet 3; H. T. Hazen coll.: Ward Chipman papers, corr., George
Leonard to Chipman, [27 or 28 May 1823]; Anthony Lockwood to Chipman,
25 May 1823; Lockwood to Thomas Wetmore, 10 Sept. 1823; George Shore to
Chipman, 14 June 1823; Ward Chipman papers, deposition of R. C. Minette,
city surveyor, Saint John; memorandum, Bank of New Brunswick,
7 Oct. 1823; Reg. of marriages for the city and county of Saint John,
book A (1810–28); SB 42: 72 (L. [M. B.] Maxwell, “History of central New
Brunswick,” column in Daily Gleaner (Fredericton), 1933). Old
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Large, 'uncommon' tree threatened by development in downtown Fredericton
'It would be a terrible loss to lose New Brunswick's largest black walnut tree,' says forester
"I'd like to see it stay, but you can't stop progress."
Black
walnut trees are a rare sight in New Brunswick, and one forestry expert
says what may be the province's largest could be damaged or killed by a
development planned for downtown Fredericton.
And Risteen isn't sure what will happen to his tree.
Palmer,
the co-author of the second edition of Great Trees of New Brunswick,
estimates there are no more than 100 black walnut trees in the entire
province.
Risteen sent his father the seeds that the tree grew from in 1958 and Risteen himself has tended to it since the early 60s.
"It's a major hassle, I can tell you, chasing walnuts," he said. "When I'm out in the morning … I'm running around with a bucket, picking up here and here and here."
Risteen estimates about 2,000 nuts fall from the tree every autumn.
Developer Gabriel Elzayat with Bella Properties plans to build an apartment complex on the property adjacent to Risteen's and Palmer says that could be devastating for the tree.
Palmer said it's safe to say the roots extend far underneath that property and digging could damage them.
"You wouldn't want digging to occur too close to the tree itself," he said.
Risteen's
black walnut is featured in Palmer's book, set for release this
spring. Palmer and his team measured it at 20 metres high and 74
centimetres in diameter.
Black walnut trees aren't native to the area and are considered "uncommon" in New Brunswick. They typically grow in southern Ontario and the southern U.S. but not much further north than New York state.
