Fort Beausejour–Fort Cumberland Historic Site

Aulac, New Brunswick, Canada

111 Fort Beausejour Rd, Aulac, NB E4L 2W5, Canada

MUSEUM

VISITOR INFORMATION

FREE PUBLIC PARKING

PUBLIC RESTROOMS

TICKET REQUIRED

This is a summer-only site: it opens Thursday to Monday from late June to early September and is closed the rest of the year. Parking, bus parking, restrooms and picnic areas are on site, just off the Trans-Canada at exit 513A.

Open June 20 - September 7, 2026, Thursday to Monday 9 am-5 pm. Adult $5.00, senior $4.50, youth 17 and under free; season pass adult $12.25, senior $11.00. Discovery Pass adult $83.50, senior $71.50, family $167.50.

Summer travel may increase demand during the staffed season (Fundy/Maritimes regional inference). Fort-specific monthly peak unconfirmed.

June or early September on a confirmed museum-opening date for fort ruins and exhibits. Check the new season calendar before travel; the operator states the 2026 visitor season has ended.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE

https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nb/beausejour

TICKET INFORMATION

https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nb/beausejour/visit/tarifs-fees

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About Fort Beausejour - Fort Cumberland National Historic Site

Captured by British forces in June 1755 following a brief siege, this French fort on the Chignecto Isthmus was renamed Fort Cumberland and became a staging point for the controversial expulsion of the Acadian population.

Parks Canada preserves Fort Beausejour-Fort Cumberland as a national historic site. Its inventory identifies the star-shaped fort's bastions, wall and ditch remains, buried structures and associated artifacts. These surviving defenses and archaeological deposits reflect successive French and British use, rather than a wholly intact furnished fort.

History happened here at Fort Beausejour - Fort Cumberland National Historic Site

Fort Beausejour - Fort Cumberland National Historic Site, 1751: Captured by British forces in June 1755 following a brief siege, this French fort on the Chignecto Isthmus was renamed Fort Cumberland and became a staging point for the controversial expulsion of the Acadian population.