Monday Mural

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October 2022 - St. Martins New Brunswick

This historical mural was designed and painted by Muralist Fred Harrison. Click here for a photo of the museum before the mural.

The original name of the community was “Quaco”. Quaco is the Akan (Derivation of Mikmaq word Goolwagagek meaning haunt of the hooded seal).

 

The Quaco Museum tells the story of a thriving shipbuilding community that launched over 500 wooden sailing vessels. In the mid-19th century, St. Martins was one of the richest communities in the British Empire. 

St. Martins was settled in 1783 by a detachment of the King’s Orange Rangers– Loyalist soldiers from Orange and Duchess Counties, New York. The detachment had been posted to garrison duty in Nova Scotia at the end of hostilities in the American Revolution of 1776.