Seth Blackburn

   When Samuel De Champlain and other European explorers began to explore the area that became New Brunswick in the 1600's, they were met by meliseet (Walastoqiyik) and mi'kmaq who in inhabited and lived along it's rivers and coasts.  The early French pioneers established settlements at the head of the Bay of Fundy and up the St. John River Valley as far as present-day Fredericton and called the entire Maritime region Acadia. The area was the subject of numerous conflicts between the French and British empires during the later 1600s and early 1700s. The region was ceded to Great Britain in 1710.

Some of them escaped to what was then a remote and relatively uninhabited coastline along the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Baie des Chaleurs, where these Acadian settlements grew and thrived. Today, this region is known as the Acadian Peninsula. In 1783,refugees loyal to the british crown began to land at the mouth of the st. john river in what was then part of the Province of Nova Scotia.They were fleeing from persecution in the aftermath TThe New Brunswick Department of Finance estimates that the provincial population in 2006 was 749,168, of which a majority is English-speaking.New Brunswick is the fourth atlantic provinces in canada. It is the third smallest province in Canada, it also has a mainland and many islands. The capitol city is Fredericton, The flower of New Brunswick is the purple violet and the tree is the Balsam Fir, and thestae bird is the Blacked- capped chickadee. There State motto is " Hope has Restored."  The Hartland Bridge Is the World's longest covered bridge (390 m. or 1283 ft. long. The confederation Bridge connects from New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island

The longest river is the Saint John River (670 km), the river splits the province north to south.

In 2006 there population was 729,997 and there ranking was #8.