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The history of New Brunswick covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day New Brunswick were inhabited for millennia by the several First Nations groups, most notably the Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, and the Passamaquoddy.
The New Brunswick and Nova Scotial Land Company was created in New Brunswick in 1831, and received its charter in 1834. The British American Land Company was established in Quebec in 1832, and received its charter in 1834. [2]
JDI was in the 1970s the largest single landowner in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Maine. JDI has also been identified as being one of the four largest private land-owners in the United States . These forest lands feed several pulp and paper plants and sawmills which in turn feed the company's paper, tissue, and diaper factories throughout New ...
Provincial lands account for 60% of the area of the province of Alberta, [3] 94% of the land in British Columbia, [4] 95% of Newfoundland and Labrador, [1] and 48% of New Brunswick. [5] The largest single landowner in Canada by far, and by extension one of the world's largest, is the Government of Canada.
Stair Agnew (1757–1821), land owner, judge and political figure in New Brunswick, he enslaved people and participated in court cases testing the legality of slavery in the colony. [2] William Aiken (1779–1831), founder and president of the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, enslaved hundreds on his rice plantation. [3]
New Brunswick [a] is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces.It is bordered by Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to the west.
Location of New Brunswick in Canada Distribution of New Brunswick's 107 municipalities and rural communities by municipal status type, before 2023 reforms. New Brunswick is the eighth-most populous province in Canada, with 775,610 residents as of the 2021 census, and the third-smallest province by land area, at 71,248.50 km 2 (27,509.20 sq mi). [1]
New Brunswick was created on June 18, 1784. [9] The province was divided into eight counties by decree of Governor Carleton : Charlotte , Kings , Northumberland , Queens , Saint John , Sunbury , Westmorland and York .