Ted Jones

1939-

Ted Jones was born in McAdam, New Brunswick, on 11 March 1939. He graduated from McAdam High School in 1957 and then went to teachers’ college in Fredericton. He taught in numerous New Brunswick schools, including Stanley High School and Albert Street Middle School. He ended up at Fredericton High School, where he taught for 35 years, retiring in 1993. While working as a teacher, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1965 and Master’s from the University of New Brunswick (1969). He has published several books including Fredericton and Its People 1825–1945 (2002) and Both Sides of the Wire: The Fredericton Internment Camp (1988), a two-volume work. Jones and his wife Anita have also co-authored Historic Fredericton North: Images of Our Past (2007). Jones has also written two biographies on prominent New Brunswick figures: All the Days of His Life: A Biography of Archdeacon H.A. Cody (1981) and Bryan Priestman: A Biographical Sketch (1970).  After he retired from teaching at Fredericton High School in 1993, Jones became editor for the York-Sunbury Museum’s publication, The Officer’s Quarterly. He also wrote for the Atlantic Advocate and had a bi-weekly column in The Daily Gleaner entitled “Fredericton Flashback.” He compiled fifty of these Gleaner articles and published them as Fredericton Flashback: Stories and Photographs from the Past (2003) for which he was awarded the 2007 Journalism Prize from the Heritage Canada Foundation. Jones died 9 September 2023.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Fredericton

Archival Material

• Ted and Anita Jones fonds
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  Location

  Provincial Archives of New Brunswick