New Brunswick Travel Reference Map

3rd Edition

Scale	1:360,000
ISBN	9781771295994
UPC	817712959942
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The Canadian province of New Brunswick sits just north of Nova Scotia and is joined to the island province of Prince Edward by the 30km-long Confederation Bridge. It borders on the American state of Maine and on the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec. The area was first settled by Bretons from Brittany, in France, and was known as Acadie. The British seized control of the colony during the Seven Years War and resettled many of the Acadians into French-controlled Louisiana, much to their displeasure. The area became the site of massive resettlement following the American Revolutionary War, with tens of thousands of refugee settlers fleeing the fighting that engulfed the rebellious colonies. The sudden growth in population, combined with returning Acadian settlers, persuaded the British to create a new colony, called New Brunswick, with its capital at Fredericton, a new interior city deemed to be less likely to be attacked by Americans (keep in mind that the residents tended to be virulently anti-rebel). The colony prospered and joined with other colonies in the 1860s to create Canada as a country in 1867. As a result, NB is full of history, and is easy to access from Maine and eastern Canada. Surprisingly, to this day the interior of the province is largely uninhabited, similarly to Maine, with most urban areas close to water. As a tidbit of trivia, Miscou Island is the site where the most advanced aircraft in the world, the USSR’s Moskva, ran out of fuel and landed in 1939, while en route to be displayed at the World’s Fair in New York City. This was during an era where Russians held great distrust of the USA and the pilots exited the plane with guns drawn, expecting to have to fight their way to safety. Being met by a couple of bemused fishermen did little to reassure them! Eventually, the plane was dismantled and shipped back to Russia, where it disappeared, never to fly again. Pity.

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Roads by classification, Rivers and Lakes, National Park, Airports, Points of Interests, Highways, Main Roads, Zoos, Fishing, and much more...

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