New Brunswick

New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick; pronounced: [nuvobʁɔnzwik]) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual (English–French). The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area. Statistics Canada estimates the provincial population in 2009 to have been 750,457; a majority of the population is English-speaking, but there is also a large Francophone minority (33%), chiefly of Acadian origin. The province's name comes from the English and French partial transcription of the city of Brunswick (Braunschweig in German) located in modern day Lower Saxony, northern Germany (and...