New Brunswick

Joined with Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec to form the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867

Qaint covered bridges spanning half forgotten rivers, sturdy fishing weirs harvesting sardines from the powerful tides of the Bay of Fundy, Stately elms lining the elegant streets of Fredericton, dense forests of the Miramichi, once haunted by the Dungarvon Whooper. New Brunswick is Canada's picture province. New Brunswick was originally part of France's Acadia, a forest refuge for French speaking colonists, chased from Nova Scotia in the 1750s. In the 1780s, loyalists escaping the American Revolution founded St. Andrews and Saint John and a new British colony was born. Loyalist and Acadian traditions still dominate New Brunswick today.

		The capital is Fredericton
		The provincial flower Adopted December 1, 1936. The purple violet, a relative of the pansy, can be purple or dark blue andis also known as the marsh blue violet. The purple violet is found throughout Eastern Canada, particularly in wet meadows and woodlands. It grows especially well in New Brunswick and is seen in fields, lawns and gardens in the early summer.

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