Ceremonial
spade and
wheelbarrow made of black walnut, birds-eye maple and butternut.
First used in Saint John by Lady Head, wife of Lt.-Gov. Sir Edmund Head, Sept. 14, 1853
to turn the sod for the European and North American Railway; later
used on similar occasions for the Fredericton Branch Railway
in 1867, the Rivière du Loup Railway at St. Mary's in 1872,
and for numerous sod turnings at UNB in the 1960s.
First used in Saint John by Lady Head, wife of Lt.-Gov. Sir Edmund Head, Sept. 14, 1853
to turn the sod for the European and North American Railway; later
used on similar occasions for the Fredericton Branch Railway
in 1867, the Rivière du Loup Railway at St. Mary's in 1872,
and for numerous sod turnings at UNB in the 1960s.