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Land, roads, mills. The New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company was one of several organizations which were established in Canada in the nineteenth century as a means of transferring land held by the Crown to individual owners. This company was chartered in New Brunswick in 1831.
New Brunswick is bounded on the north by Quebec 's Gaspé Peninsula and Bay of Chaleur and on the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Northumberland Strait. In the southeast, the Isthmus of Chignecto connects it to Nova Scotia. On its west, the province borders the American state of Maine . The total land and water area of the province is ...
The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The Maritimes had a population of 1,899,324 in 2021, which makes up 5.1% of Canada's population. [1] Together, the Maritime provinces make up the region of Atlantic Canada.
The history of New Brunswick covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day New Brunswick were inhabited for millennia by the several First Nations groups, most notably the Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, and the Passamaquoddy .
Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces ( French: provinces de l'Atlantique ), is the region of Eastern Canada comprising the provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec. The four provinces are New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. [1] As of 2021, the landmass of the four ...
Grand-Pré National Historic Site. / 45.109444; -64.310278. Grand-Pré National Historic Site is a park set aside to commemorate the Grand-Pré area of Nova Scotia as a centre of Acadian settlement from 1682 to 1755, and the British deportation of the Acadians that happened during the French and Indian War.
The Township of Monckton was a 100,000-acre (40,468.6-hectare) tract of land situated on the Petitcodiac River in colonial Nova Scotia (in today’s Canadian province of New Brunswick ). It was granted by the British government at Halifax in 1765 to a syndicate of four Philadelphia land companies headed, respectively, by John Hughes, William ...
Dalhousie (/ d æ l ˈ h aʊ z i / dal-HOW-zee) is a former town located in Northern New Brunswick. On January 1, 2023, Dalhousie merged with the village of Charlo and all or part of five local service districts (LSDs) to form the new town of Heron Bay, named Baie-des-Hérons in French. Heron Bay is New Brunswick's northernmost point of land.