Freddy Beach

The guy who started Freddy Beach Collections (the clothing company out of Fredericton) originally coined the term when he and some friends were trying to come up with a fun sounding name for their company. It accidentally became the nickname for the city amongst the university crowd at UNB. As they've moved on, the nickname has become more widely used.

--jim

The above explanation is BS...

I am from Fredericton, born and raised, and know for a fact how it happened.

Remember back to the 80's, 1981 to 1988--to be exact,when Fredericton secured an AHL Team from the Quebec Nordiques that was called the Fredericton Express. see the link here incase you forget the logo....

http://www.angelfire.com/sports/pucks/fredxpress.html

Well, for a lot of these young guys, that were from another province, many being from Quebec, spoke very little English in an otherwise predominantly Enlgish town at that time. Mnay were shy, and a bit homesick I think for their friends and family. But some very special guys around town started talking to the players and making them feel like Fredericton was a place where they belonged. Clint Malarchuck, Tony Currie, Danny Grant, just to name a few really rolled out the welcome mat so to speak to do their best to make everyone feel at home in our Lovely city.

The boys on the team were the ones who started joking about Fredericton being a winter resort, and thus the Posh sounding name of "Freddy Beach" was born. with its roots in the bowels of the Aitken Centre, and it was them, not Mr. Colpitts, that coined the phrase to describe and give an otherwise sometimes cold and dismal small city like Fredericton, something more upbeat and a bit funny.

Shawn did develope the brandname as it was starting to catch on, but then again so did other people like Chuck Fullton, may he rest in peace.

Bottom line is, Shawn heard about the moniker, saw the opportunity to market it as a brand name and image, but give credit where credit is due, the boys from Quebec gave the beginnings to the name to enlighten the winter experience in our sleep and small little town of Fredericton.

Freddy Beach does sound abit more exotic that Fredericton you must admit.

I like yourself was also born and raised in fredericton, my boyfriend and I were discussing why it was called freddy beach because of the lack of beach. We assumed it was due to freddy beach clothing and I just want to thank you for clairifying this for me, now when someone asks me why fredericton is called freddy beach I'll know, thanks! ps my b/f's uncle used to play for the express.

Here's my understanding of how the name came to be. There was a popular song out at the time called "Echo Beach"
The hook on the song was "Echo Beach, far away in time..." etc. etc.
Mike Perovich, who was a defenceman on that first year team, changed the lyrics to "Freddy Beach, far away in time," because the players felt isolated and forgotten by the parent Quebec Nordiques and then the Vancouver Canucks. It was kind of a private, team joke but it took on a life of its own and grew from there.

the name freddybreach comes from the geographics of the city..originally fredericton was a beach, to become more urban and developed, the beach was covered over and built ontop of... it has nothing to do with the clothing company or a hockey team... it's related to the history of the city...the st.john river you see downtown fredericton was once lined with a sandy beach... hence the name freddbeach

Well, my vote is for the Fredericton Express explanation... :) I remember those days!

Anyhow, I just did a jam called "Freddy Beach." Check it out here:

http://www.timrideout.com/en-article194.html

Freddy Beach is cool.