Re: Sundial at Fredericton.

[Mike Cowham]

Dear Richard,     Thanks for the information about the dial at Fredericton.  I have checked Mrs Gatty's book and there is a dial recorded by her daughter Juliana but this is a horizontal dial.  It seems that only the dial plate was surviving at that time.     I have the book 'Canada Home' so will look for the reference that you quote.      If any more information comes to hand about any of these dials I will let you know. Regards, Mike Cowham, Cambridge UK. I don't know if the Soldiers' Barracks sundial made it into Mrs. Gatty's book or not but Mrs. Gatty was made aware of the sundial by her daughter, Juliana, in a letter dated 5 October 1867. She said "... I have found another dial ­ but it has no motto. It is in the Barrack Square. But there do seem to be dials in this part of the world, which is a great point ­ & I keep an eye open as you know." And she included a sketch of the dial. The letter is reproduced in Canada Home: Juliana Horatia Ewing's Fredericton Letters 1867-1869, edited by Margaret Howard Blom and Thomas E. Blom, and published by the University of British Columbia Press, 1983.