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New Brunswick. New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick, pronounced [nuvo bʁœ̃swik], locally [nuvo bʁɔnzwɪk] ⓘ) 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. New Brunswick is bordered by Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf ...
Website. www.gnb.ca. The Government of New Brunswick (French: Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick) is the provincial government of the province of New Brunswick. Its powers and structure are set out in the Constitution Act, 1867. The Province of New Brunswick has a unicameral legislature, the New Brunswick Legislature, consisting of the ...
t. e. 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.
New Brunswick is bounded on the north by Quebec 's Gaspé Peninsula and Bay of Chaleur and on the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Northumberland Strait. In the southeast, the Isthmus of Chignecto connects it to Nova Scotia. On its west, the province borders the American state of Maine. The total land and water area of the province is ...
Fredericton (/ ˈ f r ɛ. d r ɪ k. t ən /; [8] French pronunciation: [fʁedeʁiktœn]) is the capital city of the Canadian province of New Brunswick.The city is situated in the west-central portion of the province along the Saint John River, also known by its Indigenous name of Wolastoq, which flows west to east as it bisects the city.
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English-language university in Canada, and among the oldest public universities in North America. [5] UNB was founded by a group of seven Loyalists who left the United States after the American ...
New Brunswick is a Canadian maritime province. The province, with an area of 72,908 square kilometres (28,100 sq mi), has a humid continental climate. It is the only constitutionally bilingual (English–French) province. Its urban areas have modern, service-based economies dominated by the health care, educational, retail, finance, and ...
A 24-hectare (59-acre) site featuring the remains of an early 19th-century shipyard typical of a New Brunswick one in its time; an undisturbed cultural landscape combining national and archaeological features associated with 19th-century shipbuilding in eastern Canada Belmont House / R. Wilmot Home [7] 1820 (completed) 1975 Lincoln