Object description

Meductic Indian Village / Fort Meductic was a Maliseet settlement until the mid-eighteenth century. It was located near the confluence of the Eel River and Saint John River in New Brunswick, four miles upriver from present-day Meductic, New Brunswick. The fortified village of Meductic was the principal settlement of the Maliseet First Nation from before the 17th century until the middle of the 18th, and it was an important fur trading centre. on the Kennebec River and Penobscot on the Penobscot River. Only during King George's War, after the French established Saint Anne , did the village Aukpaque, present-day Springhill, New Brunswick, become of equal importance to Meductic).