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New Brunswick is the largest of Canada’s three Maritime provinces. It is located under Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula and beside the State of Maine. New Brunswick was one of the first provinces, along with Ontario, Québec and Nova Scotia, to join together to form the Dominion of Canada in 1867. New Brunswick has experienced immigration on a smaller scale from all over the world, and today boasts a varied and increasingly multicultural population.
New Brunswick is Canada’s only officially bilingual province. English and French have been the province’s official languages since 1969.
Fredericton is the Capital city of New Brunswick and 7 other cities of the province are: Saint John, Moncton, Dieppe, Edmundston, Campbellton, Bathurst, and Miramichi.
New Brunswick’s Bay of Fundy has the highest tides on earth and is one of the most accessible viewing areas for marine life in the world. Fundy's tides are the highest in the world because of an unusual combination of resonance (or seiche) and the shape of the bay. Like water in any basin, the water in the Bay of Fundy has a natural rocking motion called a seiche.
The St. John River system is the second largest on North America’s Atlantic coastline and extends from the northwest point of the province to the southern coast, where it empties into the Bay of Fundy at Saint John.
New Brunswick has more than 55 remaining covered bridges and Kings County is considered the Covered Bridge Capital of Atlantic Canada. The bridges that are standing today are living examples of the pride of craftsmanship, heritage, engineering and design of our forefathers. The "Longest Covered Bridge in the World" is located in Hartland, New Brunswick, at 390 m. (1,282 ft.) long.
New Brunswick has more than 60 lighthouses and is famous for its inland lighthouse system that dots its inland rivers.
New Brunswick has the warmest saltwater beaches in Canada.
Standing proudly in the Town of Nackawic’s waterfront is the largest axe in the world. The Big Axe was commissioned in 1991 when Nackawic was named the Forestry Capital of Canada.
Once the Big Axe was built, moving it to the Nackawic waterfront was quite the feat. Since the Big Axe is 7 m (23 ft.) wide, it occupied a large part of the highway. The town had to arrange to move it very early one Sunday morning so as not to disrupt the traffic flow. It’s been on the Nackawic waterfront now for ~30 years!
The World's Largest Lobster is a concrete and reinforced steel statue in Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada sculpted by Canadian artist Winston Bronnum. The statue is 11 metres long and 5 metres tall, weighing 90 tonnes.
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