Mike: Sorry for taking so long to get back to you and the group about the Fredericton Soldiers' Barracks sundial. I don't know if the Soldiers' Barracks sundial made it into Mrs. Gatty's book or not (I have ordered the book through inter-library loan but it has not arrived yet) 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 <http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/sundials/sundial.ewing.jpg>. 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.
Also, for those interested, I've made a scan of the brochure that was prepared when the sundial was reconstructed: <http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/sundials/SundialBrochure.pdf>. In the photo, which dates from around the turn of the century (the one before the last), the sundial is barely visible behind the tree. The brochure inclcudes the table of corrections for EoT, longitude, and daylight saving time. -- Richard On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Mike Cowham wrote: >Dear Richard, > In your reply to John Carmichael about EoT + Longitude Correction Table >you mentioned a sundial at the Fredericton Soldiers Barracks. This >immediately started bells ringing in my brain because this is the place where >Alexander Ewing and his wife Juliana were stationed in 1867-9. If you don't >know the connection, then I should tell you that Juliana Ewing was Mrs >Gatty's second daughter - Mrs Margaret Gatty, who wrote the famous Book of >Sun-Dials. > There HAS to be a connection with the Gattys. Perhaps you know the >story? I think that the origins of the sundial are really worth following >up. > >Regards, >Mike Cowham. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Richard Langley > To: John Carmichael > Cc: Sundial List > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:04 PM > Subject: Re: EOT + Longitude Correction Table > > > I combined all of the corrections for the table I prepared when helping with > the faithful reconstruction of the Fredericton Soldiers Barracks sundial over > a decade ago <http://new-brunswick.net/new-brunswick/fredericton/page1.html>. > You can barely see the interpretive plaque low down on the wall. Some day I > must put some better pictures of the sundial and plaque up on the Web. > -- Richard Langley > > =============================================================================== Richard B. Langley E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ =============================================================================== -
