New Brunswick's Designated Provincial Historic
Sites are recognized under the Historic Sites
Protection Act as a significant part of New
Brunswick's history. These cultural spaces
range from archaeological sites and earthworks
to buildings of every style and type. Together,
they reflect our colourful past and help us
to define who we are as a people.
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Bentley Street Archaeological Site, Saint John
Built: 2002 b.c. Designated: 1998
This important anthropological site has definite associations with approximately 4000 years of aboriginal history and the ancestors of our Maliseet people. |
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Mud Lake Stream Anthropological Site, Forest City, North Lake Parish
Built: 2002 b.c. Designated: 1998
This is the site of the first discovered undisturbed deposit related to the Susquahanna culture in Maritime Canada as well as the oldest radio-carbon dated human history site in New Brunswick (circa 4000 years old). |
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Cow Point Site, Grand Lake
Built: 1700 b.c. Designated: 2000
The Maliseet People regard this 3700 year old cemetery as a sacred place for prayer, fasting and meditation. A healing place, a power place and a sacred place, the burials site offers a spiritual and physical connection to their ancestors. |
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Choose
another Heritage Place by time
period:
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You can nominate a site or structure
for designation as a Provincial Historic
Site. For more information, please visit
the Heritage Branch web site: http://www.gnb.ca/heritage
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