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New Brunswick
Day Two

Here we are—Fort Beauséjour! It is still a pretty new fort in 1753. The French started building it in 1751 to protect their country’s interest in the Chignecto isthmus (that’s the land bridge that connects New Brunswick with Nova Scotia). It sits up on the ridge here and faces Fort Lawrence, which belongs to the British.

There are about 150 soldiers living here. And, all things considered, it’s not a bad place to live (when a battle isn’t going on). The worst thing is the mosquitoes in the summertime. Actually, I shouldn’t say that. There is one thing that makes even the mosquitoes and bugs worse! Garbage duty! Some of the soldiers get to work making the fort more secure. Some of them work on digging the ditch. And some of them even get to cut firewood for the barracks. But the worst job has to be garbage duty! Do you have any idea how much garbage 150 men can make in a day!

At least our soldiers here have soap! I’ve heard that at some of the forts, they can’t get soap very often. Now that would make for some smelly garbage duty!

Well, come on, I want to check out one of the casemates where they fire the cannons from. Maybe when we’re done there, we can check out the officer’s quarters!