Historical records of the New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery

;N. P.. GARRISON ARTILLERY. 205When strangers meet as once met only friends,And each gives kindly greeting to his fellowAnd Peace, with her twin sister, Learning tendsFor ancient hate of race to make amends,Beneath the old Martello.The Imperial barracks used to be on the ground at LowerCove now occupied by the drill shed and as a parade ground.They were erected about 1819-20, and were destroyed in thefire .of 1877 with the exception of two stone buildings on Sidneystreet which still remain.About 1812-13 ^ wooden block house was erected on Kingstreet, east, at the intersection of Wentworth street. Traverseswere also cut in the solid rock for a two gun battery, butwhen the level of King street was reduced some years ago alltrace disappeared of the eminence on which the block houseand battery stood.Besides these there were four batteries on the line of theshore of the harbor and Courtenay Bay, called the 'Graveyard battery,''Southern battery,' 'Blockhouse battery,' and the 'Easternbattery,' or 'Fort Johnston' on Pitt street, fronting on CourtenayBay. It is difficult at the present time to get any authenticaccount of the building of these batteries. General opinionplaces the time of erection about the commencement of thewar of 181 2, with the exception of the battery at the foot ofSidney street, called the 'Southern battery.' In the newspaperaccount of the arrival of Prince Edward, Duke of "Kent,in 1794, quoted in the second chapter, it is stated that a royalsalute was fired from Dorchester ' battery.' This name has alwaysbeen applied to the Barrack batteries and it is probable thatthe 'Southern battery' is the oldest of the fortifications on the