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Bwana_Brown Says: New Brunswick is 90% covered by forest, the highest coverage of any state or province in North America, and the landscape is rolling due to the many rivers, brooks and creeks that cut through it. As a result, good farming areas are difficult to come by, unless you happen to...
The Railway was once a big deal
Bwana_Brown Says: As mentioned in the Intro, Sussex came into being because of the construction of the European and North American Railway, the final section of which was completed through the area in 1860. The idea was to tie into the New England railway network so their goods could be...
Some classic old Victorian houses
Bwana_Brown Says: Back in the days before globilization, when Sussex was famous for its Golden Ginger Ale (soda to Americans, pop to Canadians) and dairy products, I think there was some serious money floating around the town. Although this photo shows quite an ornate house downtown beside...
Bwana_Brown Says: During my time in Sussex and still today, Broad Street seems to be quite a busy spot. This is a very short street with shops along only one side, since the railway runs down the other side of the street. It starts as a branch off Main Street and only runs a few hundred feet...
Bwana_Brown Says: It is a shame the havoc that introduced diseases can wreak as they travel here and there in the world, infecting things that have no immunity to their effects. Such is the case with Dutch Elm Disease, a plight that has severely affected Elm trees world-wide. Both of my...
Historic buildngs - relatively speaking!
Bwana_Brown Says: As its population grew with the coming of the railway, Sussex was incorporated in 1895 and shortly thereafter became a town in 1904. Obviously, this had been seen coming because this majestic 'Dominion Building' was inaugurated in 1883 to house various government offices...
The town's Military Connections
Bwana_Brown Says: This part of New Brunswick was quite sparsely populated until the the Revolution of the American colonies took place (1776-1783). Many settlers in those areas pulled up stakes and moved north to the free land being offered in the colonies of Canada, in order to remain...
Bwana_Brown Says: OK, as rivers go, the Kennebecasis (pronounced 'ke-ne-buh-KAY-sis') is not all that impressive, even if it did scare me a few times when I was floating on it in a home-made raft! At only 60-miles (97-km) in length, this photo just south of Sussex in Apohaqui, shows that it...
Bwana_Brown Says: The official nickname of Sussex is the 'Dairytown' because of the numbers of surrounding farms and the quality of dairy products that have been produced here over the years. In my time, the award-winning old Sussex Cheese & Butter company plant was one of the main employers...
muzikman69 Says: This is a nice event to check out in early Septembet each year. Susses holds a hot air balloon festival. I believe you are able to even go up in some of the balloons. The festival takes place the weekend after labor day (Canadian Labor Day, 1st monday in Septembet??)
marcoparco Says: Although the southern part of New-Brunswick is not normally known for good snowmobiling, this season was to say the least- exceptionnal!!!! The recieved a lot more snow then Central and Northern New-Brunswick. This made for great snowmobiling. Although this may seem like a...
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Amsterdam Inn: A new local Hotel chain
Bwana_Brown Says: The Amsterdam Inn chain of motels has recently been formed in New Brunswick, with three of them presently operating in Sussex, Fredericton and Moncton. They are clean and modern establishments well suited to providing their customers with a comfortable stay at a reasonable...
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It may be hard to believe, but back in the late 1960s and early 1970s when I had the chance to travel westward through Montreal, I was amazed to discover how delicious pizzas and submarine sandwiches were! Strange and exotic foods such as these had not yet made it into the conservative lands east of Quebec and Ontario! This trend began to be corrected in 1968 when the Pizza Delight franchise opened its first store in Shediac, outside Moncton, NB. Over the years it has grown to include more than 100 restaurants in seven Canadian provinces and has expanded beyond the initial pizza offerings to a more varied Italian menu.
Favorite Dish: Lately, when I am in Sussex I have been taking my mother out for the odd lunchtime meal at the local Pizza Delight. They have introduced a new 'starter' gimmick where you can choose (at no extra charge) from various types of thick bread slices, apply a jalapeno, garlic or whatever spread and then grill it yourself while you wait for your order to arrive. Menu items include pizzas, soups, sandwiches, panzarotti, donairs, chicken & ribs and pasta dishes. They also serve a good house wine and bottled beers. The excellent food and service make this a very popular chain throughout eastern Canada!
Updated Oct 29, 2006
Bwana_Brown Says: In recent years, residents of Sussex initiated a mural project that involves contributions from artists all over the world painting historic scenes on the side of the downtown buildings, depicting various aspects of life in this small town. Partially in answer to the...
Bwana_Brown Says: Near the top of Church Avenue sits an old water fountain that has been there as long as I can remember. The story was that a drink of its waters would bring you good health and that was a good thing, because you certainly were not drinking the sulphur-smelling water for its...
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During my first few years in Sussex (1954-62) I lived with my parents and three brother/sisters in a very modest house about four blocks to the left of the train station in this view and only a couple of blocks away from the tracks. The whole house would shake and we could easily hear the warning horn signals at the several street crossings in town whenever the long freight trains rumbled through day and night. It so happened that both the large buildings of the Sussex Golden Ginger Ale plant and several rows of parallel tracks where cargoes could be shunted off to the side were located very close to where we lived.
This naturally led to my brother and I, along with our friends, spending a lot of time playing in and around the train tracks in those days before most families could afford a TV (even though we had been warned that the wheels of trains would 'suck us in' if we got too close to them). Sometimes we would walk out of town along the tracks until we came to bridges over small brooks, or we would put pennies on the rails and wait to see how flat they would be after a train passed by. Other times we would climb in and on top of the numerous boxcars or flatbed cars loaded with pulp-wood logs that were sitting in the marshalling yard. When we got bored with that, we would find ways to climb up onto the warehouse roof at the Ginger Ale plant for a better view of our surroundings. Of course the housing on the 'wrong' side of the tracks was even poorer than ours and they had their own 'gangs' that hung out, so we had to always be ready to high-tail it home if our two groups happened to bump into each other in this 'borderland' area. It is probably a good thing my parents did not know half of the stuff we were up to in those early days of amusing ourselves! The 2nd photo shows me on my best behavior with my mother watching behind we children, as my older brother was invested to a higher elevation as a Queen's Scout!
Updated Apr 28, 2007
Bwana_Brown Says: Not far from Sussex, atop Keirstead Mountain (not much more than a large hill in reality!) I pass by this cluster of old barns every time I drive down from Fredericton. They have been there as long as I can remember, even when I was just a child in the backseat of my parents...
Bwana_Brown Says: Sussex is known as the 'covered bridge capital of Atlantic Canada' because there are 16 of these bridges located within Kings County and 8 of these bridges are within a ten minute driving distance of the town. The Kennebecasis valley has long been a preferred route for...
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Sussex - nestled in the valley
Sussex is the place where I spent most of my early childhood years, went through school from Grades 1-12 and then spent another three summers there, until the age of 20, as I worked to pay my way...
On March 18th at 7:30 am I departed with 5 fellow sledders to head to Sussex New-Brunswick, Canada. This is a one hour drive or so from my home town of Fredericton. We loaded our sleds on the trailers...
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