New Brunswick

New Brunswick (French, le
Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada's
provinces. Its capital is Fredericton.
Its population is slowly growing, and
now exceeds 700,000 (New
Brunswickers).                             Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope was
                                                     restored)
New Brunswick is located in the
Canadian Maritimes, on the country's
east coast. It is bounded on the north Capital              Fredericton
by Quebec's GaspŽ Peninsula and by the Largest city         Saint John
Baie des Chaleurs and on the east by
the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and         Area                 11th largest
Northumberland Strait. To the south, a                      (8th lgst
narrow peninsula connects it to Nova   Ê- Total             prov.)
Scotia, most of which is split off by  Ê- % fresh water     72 908 km²
the Bay of Fundy; to the east, the                          2,0%
province borders the American state of Population           Ranked 8th
Maine.                                 Ê- Total (2001)      757 100
                                       Ê- Density           10,60/km²
The total land and water area of the   Admittance into      N.B. colony
province is approximately 70,000       Confederation        joined Confed.
square kilometres. About 80% of the    Ê- Date              1867
province is forested, with the other   Ê- Order             1
20% consisting of agricultural land
and urban areas. New Brunswick is at   Time zone            UTC -4
the northern limit of the Appalachian  Postal information   Ê
Mountains, a chain of ancient, eroded  Postal abbreviation  NB
mountains. The land consists of river  Postal code prefix   E
valleys and low, gently rolling hills. ISO 3166-2           CA-NB
The population is majority             Parliamentary        Ê
English-speaking but with a            representation
substantial (35%) French-speaking      ÊHouse seats         10
minority who call themselves Acadians  ÊSenate seats        10
from Acadia, the former name of the
region in the French colonial period   Premier              Bernard Lord
                                                            (P.C.)
when large numbers migrated from the
Vienne area of France. New Brunswick   Lieutenant-Governor  HermŽnŽgilde
is the only officially bilingual                            Chiasson
province in the country.                    Government of New Brunswick

The Province of New Brunswick was created in 1784, when recently-arrived
Loyalists to the British Crown who resented being governed from distant
Halifax, Nova Scotia, petitioned the British Government to allow them to
form a separate province consisting of the mainland portion of Nova Scotia.
The new province was named in honour of the Duke of Brunswick, son of King
George III of the United Kingdom. Fredericton (note: there is no "k") was
likewise named for the Prince of Wales, who died before becoming king.

New Brunswick has eight officially incorporated cities, listed here in
descending order by population:

   * Saint John
   * Moncton
   * Fredericton
   * Miramichi
   * Edmundston
   * Dieppe
   * Bathurst
   * Campbellton

Saint John is a port city, with heavy industry in the form of pulp and
paper, oil refineries, and drydocks, all owned by the family of the late
K.C. Irving, as is much of the province's economy and 3 ot of 4 of its daily
English language newspapers. Saint John is always written out in full, to
distinguish it from St. John's (Harbour), the capital of Newfoundland, with
which it is commonly confused by those outside of the Atlantic Provinces.

Fredericton, in addition to being the capital of the province, is a genteel
university town, and home to the Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Theatre New
Brunswick, and other amenities, including Christ Church Cathedral, whose
foundation is the oldest in Canada or the United States. Fredericton is
nicknamed the "City of Stately Elms". It has boasted of the largest stand of
elms outside of Central Park since Dutch Elm Disease devastated this species
in the early twentieth century.

The economy of New Brunswick is a modern service economy dominated by
financial services, insurance and other services, but is best known for
forestry, mining, mixed farming and fishing. The most valuable crop is
potatoes, while the most valuable fish catches are lobster and scallops. The
largest employers are the Irving family companies, the Government of New
Brunswick, and the McCain (french fries) family companies.

The University of New Brunswick was founded as King's College in 1785, one
of the oldest educational institutions in North America.

Mount Allison University is a small private undergraduate university which
has consistently topped the Maclean's magazine survey of Canadian
Universities in the undergraduate university category since that poll began.
It produces a Rhodes Scholar about once every two years on the average, and
was the first university in the British Empire to grant a Bachelor's degree
to a woman.

The UniversitŽ de Moncton is a french-language university with its principal
campus in Moncton.

Atlantic Baptist University is an undergraduate university offering three
Bachelor's degrees; Science, Arts and Education. It was founded
mid-twentieth century as a bible training school, and grew to an accredited
and academically rigorous Liberal Arts university in under fifty years. ABU
is also located in Moncton.

The Acadians are survivors of the Expulsion (1755) which drove several
thousand French residents into exile in North America, the U.K. and France
for refusing to take an oath of allegiance to Britain during the time of
high tension pending war between France and Britain. Their American cousins,
who wound up in Louisiana and other parts of the American South, are often
referred to as Cajuns.

The aboriginal peoples include the Micmac (Mi'kmaq), Malecite and
Passamaquoddy .

New Brunswick gave the world Albert Gesner, a geologist who invented
kerosene and was instrumental in the creation of the early oil industry in
Pennsylvania; the inventor of the fog horn, jockey Ron Turcotte, actors
Donald Sutherland and Walter Pidgeon, Louis B. Mayer, one of the founders of
Hollywood's MGM Studios, Fleet Street publishing baron, William Maxwell
Aitken, Harry Saltzman, creator of the "James Bond" films, and Canadian
Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett. Poets Bliss Carman and Charles G.D.
Roberts, as well as Archibald Lampman, were New Brunswickers.

The provincial flower is the purple violet. The provincial bird is the black-capped
chickadee, in common with some states in the United States of America.

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