Peter Fisher

Born in 1782, Peter Fisher was a New Brunswick writer and historian best known for Sketches of New Brunswick, first published in 1825. The book is often recognized as one of the earliest general histories of the province, bringing together details on its settlement, landscape, government, economy, and communities in a form meant for a broad readership.

Fisher later revised and expanded this work, which appeared in 1838 under the title Notitia of New Brunswick. His writing is valued not only for the facts it records, but also for the picture it offers of life in early nineteenth-century New Brunswick during a formative period in the colony's development.

He died in 1848. Although not widely known today outside Canadian historical circles, his books remain useful to readers interested in the early history of New Brunswick and in how the province was described by one of its first local chroniclers.