Except for New Brunswick, all territories and provinces increased in population from 2011 to 2016. Today less than one per cent of old-growth Acadian forest remains,[32] and the World Wide Fund for Nature lists the Acadian Forest as endangered. Premier Blaine Higgs delivered the 46th State of the Province address on Thursday, Jan. 30, at the Fredericton Convention Centre. All rights reserved. The New Brunswick Southern Railway, a division of J. D. Irving Limited, together with its sister company Eastern Maine Railway form a continuous 305 km (190 mi) main line connecting Saint John and Brownville Junction, Maine. [18] The colony was named New Brunswick in honour of George III, King of Great Britain, King of Ireland, and prince-elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg in what is now Germany. The Commission recommended the creation of equalization payments, implemented in 1957. Showing content for: ... 2020 to December 31, 2020; ... Our service providers are closely monitoring the Province’s Business Recovery Guidelines and Public Health measures to ensure that our investment, administration, and actuarial operations continue to be seamlessly provided. According to its Official Languages Act as confirmed in the Constitution of Canada, New Brunswick has two official languages, English and French, and New Brunswickers have the right to receive provincial government services in the official language of their choice.[7]. [50] New Brunswick was in 2015 the biggest producer of wild blueberries in Canada. In the mid-1960s, forestry practices changed from the controlled harvests of a commodity to the cultivation of the forests. Music of New Brunswick includes artists such as Henry Burr, Roch Voisine, Lenny Breau, and Édith Butler. New Brunswick declared a state of emergency on March 19 to mitigate the pandemic. However, settlement of the area remained slow in the mid-18th century. 2020 State of the Province Address. [38], New Brunswick lies entirely within the Appalachian Mountain range. After the American Revolution, about 10,000 loyalist refugees settled along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy,[15] commemorated in the province's motto, Spem reduxit ("hope restored"). As of 2017, there are 237 LSDs. Candidates must meet the program’s minimum eligibility requirements, have a genuine offer of employment from a New Brunswick Employer and have the full intent to live and work in the province on a permanent basis. Fiddlehead greens are harvested from the Ostrich fern which grows on riverbanks. After Canada joined World War II, 14 NB army units were organized, in addition to The Royal New Brunswick Regiment,[6] and first deployed in the Italian campaign in 1943. [46] Those in the goods-producing industries are mostly employed in manufacturing or construction, while those in services work in social assistance, trades, and health care. Most of the province is administrated as a local service district (LSD), an unincorporated unit of local governance. About half of that came from lobster. [53] Mines in New Brunswick produce lead, zinc, copper, and potash. Télévision de Radio-Canada is based in Moncton. [21] In 1848, responsible home government was granted,[18] and the 1850s saw the emergence of political parties largely organised along religious and ethnic lines. Julia Catherine Beckwith, born in Fredericton, was Canada's first published novelist. Since the 2018 election, minor parties are the Green Party of New Brunswick and the People's Alliance of New Brunswick. [57] The Chief Justice of New Brunswick serves at the apex of this court structure. Popular destinations include Fundy National Park and the Hopewell Rocks, Kouchibouguac National Park, and Roosevelt Campobello International Park. Poet Bliss Carman and his cousin Charles G. D. Roberts were some of the first Canadians to achieve international fame for letters. Mount Allison University in Sackville began offering classes in 1854. With about half of the population being rural, it is expensive for the government to provide education and health services, which account for 60 per cent of government expenditure. All content © Government of New Brunswick. The British conquest of most of the Acadian peninsula occurred during the Queen Anne's War, and was formalized in the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. New Brunswick was largely rural until 1951; since then, the rural-urban split has been roughly even. For education, English-language and French-language systems serve the two linguistic communities at all levels. Public education elementary and secondary education in the province is administered by the provincial Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Government revenues are shrinking because of a decline in federal transfer payments. In … The province announced another four new cases of COVID-19 in New Brunswick on Sunday while announcing plans to move some zones back to the yellow recovery phase. Magma pushed up through the cracks, forming basalt columns on Grand Manan. [30] Today the sea level is about 30 cm (1') higher than it was 100 years ago, and it is expected to rise twice that much again by the year 2100.[30]. In 1867, New Brunswick was one of four founding provinces of Canada, along with Nova Scotia and the Province of Canada (now Ontario, and Quebec). Among areas under federal jurisdiction are citizenship, foreign affairs, national defence, fisheries, criminal law, indigenous policies, and many others. The premier said advisers from academia, business and the technology sector have advised Opportunities New Brunswick — the government’s business development agency — that the province needs to embrace a pro-growth agenda. The annual event is hosted by the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce. The Trans-Canada Highway is not under federal jurisdiction, and traverses the province from Edmundston following the Saint John River Valley, through Fredericton, Moncton, and on to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. 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[22] The 1864 Charlottetown Conference was intended to discuss a Maritime Union, but concerns over possible conquest by the Americans, coupled with a belief that Britain was unwilling to defend its colonies against an American attack, led to a request from the Province of Canada (now Ontario and Quebec) to expand the meeting's scope. About two thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones, one third francophones, and one-third bilingual. On 19 March 2020, the Province of New Brunswick declared a state of emergency under section 12 of the Emergency Measures Act to enhance measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 (the novel coronavirus).