Welcome To New Brunswick

One of the three Maritime provinces, and included as one of the four Atlantic provinces, of Canada, bounded on the north by the Province of Quebec and Chaleur Bay, on the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Northumberland Strait, on the south east by Nova Scotia, on the south by the Bay of Fundy, and on the west by the State of Maine. The province is joined to Nova Scotia by the narrow Isthmus of Chignecto.
New Brunswick entered the Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1867, as one of the four original provinces. The province has traditionally had an economy based on the exploitation of its natural resources. In the early 1990's forestry and mineral industries remained important, but services and manufacturing were the dominant sectors. The province is named for the British royal family of Brunswick-Luneburg (the house of Hannover). New Brunswick is called the Loyalist Province.
According to the 1991 census, New Brunswick had 723,900 inhabitants. English was the mother tongue of about 64% of the people; about 33% had French as their sole first language, a larger proportion than in any province other than Quebec.
The province's largest communities are Saint John; Moncton; Fredericton (the Capitol); Riverview; Bathurst; Edmundston; and Dieppe.
New Brunswick is known as the Picture Province because of it's beautiful landscape and scenery. The heart of Acadia and the original French settlement in North America.
The capital of New Brunswick is Fredericton and has a population of approximately 800,000. The largest city is Saint John.

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