FREDERICTON: ITS BUILDINGS, PUBLIC HOUSES, AMUSEMENTS, ETC The year following the great fire was marked by great progress throughout the Province.

Farmers were again in homes which they had built upon the site of those destroyed by the devouring element.

Fields once more showed signs of cultivation.

With Sir Howard Douglas to stimulate the prosperity of his people, progress was the watchword--the general impulse.
Fredericton, like the phoenix, had arisen from its ashes; buildings arose in rapid succession.

Wooden houses of moderate pretensions lined Queen and King streets, from Westmorland to Carleton street, the limit of the burnt district.
Business was carried on by a few upright and enterprising merchants, foremost of whom stood Rankine & Co., the leading firm of the city.