New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and is the only constitutionally bilingual province (French and English) in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton. The New Brunswick Department of Finance estimates that the provincial population in 2006 was 749,168, of which a majority is English-speaking; but with a large francophone minority (35%), chiefly of Acadian origin.
The province's name comes from the archaic English translation for Braunschweig; a city in northern Germany, and the ancestral home of the Hanoverian King George III.
The New Brunswick Community College system has campuses in all regions of the province. This comprehensive trade school system offers roughly parallel programs in both official languages at either francophone or anglophone campuses. Each campus however, tends to have areas of concentration to allow for specialisation. There are also a number of private colleges for specialised training in the province, such as the Moncton Flight College; one of the top pilot-training academies in Canada.
There are four publicly funded secular universities and four private degree granting religious institutions in the province. The two comprehensive provincial universities are the University of New Brunswick and Université de Moncton. These institutions both have extensive post graduate programs and Schools of Law. Mount Allison University in Sackville consistently ranks as one of the best liberal arts universities in Canada and has produced 46 Rhodes Scholars, more than any other liberal arts university in North America. St. Thomas University is also highly regarded.
Publically funded provincial comprehensive universities:
University of New Brunswick, (Fredericton and Saint John), anglophone
Université de Moncton, (Moncton, Shippagan and Edmunston), francophone
Publically funded undergraduate liberal arts universities:
St. Thomas University, (Fredericton), anglophone
Mount Allison University, (Sackville), anglophone
Private religious undergraduate liberal arts university
Atlantic Baptist University, (Moncton), anglophone
Private degree granting religious training institutions:
St. Stephen's University, (Saint Stephen), anglophone
Bethany Bible College, (Sussex), anglophone
New Brunswick Bible Institute, (Hartland), anglophone
The province has a number of other outstanding tourist attractions. These include the New Brunswick Museum, Kouchibouguac National Park, Mactaquac Provincial Park, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, King's Landing Historical Settlement, Village Historique Acadien, Les Jardins de la Republique, Parlee Beach, Hopewell Rocks, La Dune de Bouctouche, Saint John Reversing Falls, Magnetic Hill Zoo, Crystal Palace, Magic Mountain Water Park, Cape Jourimain National Wildlife Preserve, Sackville Waterfowl Park, Fundy National Park and the 41 km Fundy Hiking Trail.
Metropolitan Moncton (Moncton, Riverview, Dieppe) with a population of 126,424 (Canada 2006 census) is the largest urban centre in the province. Metropolitan Saint John (Saint John, Quispamsis, Rothesay) is a close second at 122,389. Greater Fredericton has a census agglomeration population of 85,000.
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