New Brunswick

New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and is the only constitutionally bilingual province (French and English) in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton. The New Brunswick Department of Finance estimates that the provincial population in 2006 was 749,168, of which a majority is English-speaking; but with a large francophone minority (35%), chiefly of Acadian origin.

The province's name comes from the archaic English translation for Braunschweig; a city in northern Germany, and the ancestral home of the Hanoverian King George III.