New Brunswick Facts

• Capital City: Fredericton (85,688 pop.) (2006 CMA)
  (CMA population includes city and metro suburb areas)
• New Brunswick Population: 751,171 (2011 est.)
• New Brunswick Population: (per square mile)
• Province Populations: (all provinces / territories)
  
• Currency: Canadian Dollar (conversion rates)
  
  
  Fifty Canadian Dollars
• Ethnicity: French (25%), English (17%), Irish (17%), Scottish (16%), others
• GDP total: $27.497 billion(Canadian dollars) (8th)
• GDP per capita: $33,364 (Canadian dollars) (12th)
• Land Sizes
• Language: English
• Largest Cities: (by population) Moncton, Saint John, Fredericton, Bathurst, Miramichi
• Name: The province's name comes from the English and French translation for the city of Braunschweig in north Germany, the ancestral home of the Hanoverian King George III of the United Kingdom.
• Province Date: July 1, 1867
• Dominion dates (all provinces and teritories)
  
  Note: The Canadian Confederation, or the birth of Canada as a recognized nation, took place on July 1, 1867, and originally included the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec.
• Religion: Catholic (54%), Baptist, (11%), United Church of Canada (10%), others
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