Wakefield, New Brunswick Explained

Wakefield is a dispersed Canadian rural community located in Wakefield Parish, Carleton County, New Brunswick.[1]

Located approximately 9 km southeast of Hartland,[2] Wakefield sits along Route 103 by the Saint John River. The nearby Hartland is home to the Hartland Bridge, the world's longest covered bridge.

History

See main article: History of New Brunswick. According to local residents in the early 20th century, the old village of Wakefield was located at what later became Victoria Corner.[3] It had a large store run by James R. Tupper and a hotel run by John Moran.

In 1984, a famous bridge at Wakefield burned down in a fire.[4] By 1988, it had been rebuilt as a covered bridge, and re-opened to pedestrians only.

In popular culture

Wakefield is one of the settings in the novel Maclean by Allan Donaldson, which tells the story of a First World War veteran who was gassed at Ypres.[5]

See also

Neighbouring communities

Further reading

46.2219°N -67.5242°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wakefield .
  2. Web site: Government of Canada . Natural Resources Canada . Place names - Search Results . geonames.nrcan.gc.ca . 30 March 2024.
  3. Book: Ketchum, T. C. L. . A short history of Carleton county, New Brunswick . 1922 . Sentinel . Woodstock, New Brunswick . 63.
  4. News: Ferguson . Will . May 24, 1998 . A Kiss in the Dark: The Vanishing Beauty of Covered Bridges . 2024-03-31 . Ottawa Citizen . Newspapers.com.
  5. Book: Grace, Sherrill . Landscapes of war and memory: The two World Wars in Canadian literature and the arts, 1977-2007 . 2014 . University of Alberta Press . 9781772120004 . 117.