New Brunswick Facts | Size of New Brunswick

New Brunswick covers 28,345 sq mi (73,433 sq km), including 519 sq mi (1,345 sq km) of water surface. This is about the same size as the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg added together.
New Brunswick is Canada’s only officially bilingual province (both French and English are official languages)
New Brunswick is the largest of Canada’s three Maritime provinces.
There are three distinct coastlines in New Brunswick that together span 2,250km.
No part of the province lies more than 200km from the ocean.
New Brunswick’s Bay of Fundy has the highest tides on earth.
The Bay of Fundy offers some of the world’s best whalewatching
Grand Manan Island in the Fundy Isles is one of the top birding spots in North America.
The Saint John River system is the second largest on North America’s Atlantic coastline.
The (edible!) tops of ferns (fiddleheads) and a type of seaweed (dulse) are among New Brunswick delicacies.
New Brunswick has more than 48 lighthouses and is famous for its inland lighthouse system that dots its inland rivers.
New Brunswick has over 60 covered bridges.
The ‘’Longest Covered Bridge in the World’’ - 390 m (1,282 ft.) long - is located in Hartland, New Brunswick.
Over eighty percent of the province is forested.
New Brunswick grows approximately 500,000 Christmas trees per year: 85 per cent of these are exported.
Over 95 per cent of the New Brunswick’s Christmas trees are balsam firs: the balsam fir is the official provincial tree.
The first French settlement in North America was attempted in 1604 on Saint Croix Island, (now partly in New Brunswick).
New Brunswick is home to the largest ocean tidal whirlpool (off the coast of Deer Island) in the western hemispheres. It is called the “Old Sow”.
The University of New Brunswick is the oldest University in North America (it shares the honour with tied with the University of Georgia).
Saint John is the oldest incorporated city in Canada.
The New Brunswick Museum (in Saint John) was the first museum in Canada – it was established in 1842.
Shediac is home to the World’s Largest Lobster. This statue is 10.5m long, 4.5m high and weighs 90 tons!
Britain’s Prime Minister from 1922 to 1923, Andrew Bonar Law, was born in Rexton: he is the UK’s only PM to have been born outside the British Isles. Talking of PMs, Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bennett (1870–1947) was born in Hopewell
Film mogul Louis B. Mayer grew up in Saint John: the city was the birthplace of film stars Walter Pidgeon and Donald Sutherland
Locals are generally called “New Brunswickers”, though the term “New Brunswickian” is sometimes used.
Mount Carleton Provincial Park is home to the highest peak in the Maritimes – a soaring 820m (2,690ft) high.
One of Canada's most famous clipper ships, the " Marco Polo " was launched near Saint John in 1851. She later earned the title “Fastest Ship in the World”
Some of our inventions include the scuba tank (1839), the snow blower (1870) and the sardine can (1932).

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