The Peddler - Fredericton Junction, New Brunswick
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N 45° 38.566 W 066° 37.603
19T E 684946 N 5057096
une statue du "Peddler" située à environ 2 km au sud-ouest sur Diamond Square Road à Fredericton Junction, Nouveau-Brunswicka / statue of the Peddler located about 2 km southwest on Diamond Square Road in Fredericton Junction, New Brunswick
Waymark Code: WM18D4Q
Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Date Posted: 07/10/2023
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member TerraViators
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La statue du "Peddler" par l'artiste local Robin Hansen, est située à environ 2 km au sud-ouest sur Diamond Square Road à Fredericton Junction, au Nouveau-Brunswick.

Selon différentes sources, « en 1885, un acheteur de bétail du sud-ouest du Nouveau-Brunswick venait de vendre son bétail à proximité de Fredericton Junction et avait décidé de s'offrir un repas dans un hôtel local. Cela l'a amené à une soirée à boire et à jouer aux cartes avec des étrangers qui étaient très intéressés par les bénéfices du bétail de l'acheteur (qu'il gardait dans son sac à dos). Ils lui ont tendu une embuscade le lendemain, juste à l'extérieur de la jonction sur Diamond Square Road. Après la découverte du corps, il a été inhumé par les habitants juste sur la route, mais le meurtre est resté non résolu pendant des années.Ce n'est qu'une confession d'un condamné à mort à un prêtre de Montréal (Québec), qui a révélé les détails de la lutte courageuse avec les assaillants et le coup de couteau mortel qui a finalement libéré le sac à dos hors de portée de l'acheteur de bétail ».

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The statue of the Peddler by a local artist Robin Hansen, is located about 2 km southwest on Diamond Square Road in Fredericton Junction, New Brunswick.

According to different sources, "in 1885, a southwestern New Brunswick cattle buyer had just sold his livestock in nearby Fredericton Junction and had decided to treat himself to a meal at a local hotel. This led him to a night of drinking and cards with strangers who were very much interested in the buyer’s cattle profits (which he kept in his knapsack). They ambushed him the next day, just outside of the Junction on Diamond Square Road. After discovery of the body, he was laid to rest by locals just down the road, but the murder remained unsolved for years. It wasn’t until a death sentence confession to a priest in Montreal (Quebec), that brought out the details of the courageous struggle with the assailants and the fatal stabbing that finally loosed the knapsack from the cattle buyer’s grasp".

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Date of crime: 09/30/1885

Public access allowed: yes

Fee required: no

Web site: [Web Link]

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