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New Brunswick
province, Canada
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- Capital:
- Fredericton
- Population:
- (2021) 775,610
- Date Of Admission:
- 1867
- Provincial Motto:
- "Spem reduxit (Hope was restored)"
- Provincial Flower:
- purple violet
New Brunswick, Canadian province located on the eastern seaboard of the North American continent. It is Canada’s only officially bilingual province, French and English having equal status. It was one of the four original provinces making up the national confederation in 1867. Together with Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, it forms the regional grouping known as the Maritime Provinces. New Brunswick has a roughly rectangular shape, about 210 miles (340 km) from north to south and 185 miles (300 km) from east to west. It is bounded to the north by the province of Quebec, to the east by ...(100 of 4042 words)