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Climate

WINTER: The season for winter festivities! Enjoy skating, skiing, festivals and snowy outdoor fun!SPRING: Romance blossoms in the award-winning gardens OF New Brunswick and it’s a perfect time to enjoy Sunday brunch at one of the old-fashioned sugar camps. Be sure to go ‘fiddleheading’ for a uniquely New Brunswick experience!

SUMMER: Pack your towel and hit the beach, New Brunswick has the warmest salt water in Canada! The sunniest season is chock-full of activities and outdoor adventures from festivals and events to camping in parks and exploring the natural wonders. AUNTUMN: The prettiest time of year in New Brunswick. Majestic lighthouses stand sentinel over craggy cliffs and local farmers markets are at their prime. Don’t miss some of the best whale watching of the year.

Economy

New Brunswick's urban areas have modern, service-based economies dominated by the health care, educational, retail, finance, and insurance sectors. These sectors are reasonably equitably distributed in all three principal urban centres. In addition, heavy industry and port facilities are found in Saint John; Fredericton is dominated by government services, universities, and the military; and Moncton has developed as a commercial, retail, transportation, and distribution centre with important rail and air terminal facilities.

The rural primary economy is best known for forestry, mining, mixed farming, and fishing.

Tourism

New Brunswick is divided into five scenic drives: Fundy Coastal Drive, Acadian Coastal Drive, River Valley Scenic Drive, Miramichi River Route and Appalachian Range Route. Provincial and Municipal Visitor Information Centres are located throughout each drive.

Aside from Saint John's large tourism industry from cruise ships, some of the province's tourist attractions include the New Brunswick Museum, Minister's Island, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Grand Manan Island, Kings Landing Historical Settlement, Village Historique Acadien, Les Jardins de la République, Hopewell Rocks, La Dune de Bouctouche, Saint John Reversing Falls, Magnetic Hill and the Magnetic Hill Zoo, Crystal Palace, Magic Mountain Water Park, Casino New Brunswick, Cape Jourimain National Wildlife Preserve, Sackville Waterfowl Park, and the 41 km (25 mi) Fundy Hiking Trail.

New Brunswick - The Facts

New Brunswick is one of the three Maritime Provinces – and the largest by area.
New Brunswick had a population of 751,171.· Fredericton is the capital of New Brunswick though Saint John is the most populous city.
New Brunswick is the only province in Canada that is constitutionally bilingual. French is spoken by about a third of the population, especially by people of Acadian origin.· The Bay of Fundy boasts the highest tides in the world.
The Bay of Fundy is home to many types of sharks including threshers, makos, porbeagles and believe it or not even the Great White Shark.

Fun Facts:

There is a chocolate museum in St. Stephen housed in the original Ganong factory. The Ganongs are Canada’s oldest family-owned candy maker and the first to introduce the five cent chocolate bar.
Over 500,000 Christmas trees are harvested every year in New Brunswick – no surprise really when you consider the fact that over 80% of the province is forested.
One third of the world’s French Fries come from New Brunswick’s “French Fry Capital”, Florenceville-Bristol. This small town is home to the McCain empire.