New Brunswick is one of and the largest of Canada’s three maritime provinces, alongside Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. Bordered by Quebec, Nova Scotia, and American state Maine, New Brunswick is
. The capital is Fredericton. Other major cities include Saint John, a large industrial city based on an oil refinery, a nuclear power plant, and a major container port, and Moncton, a headquarter for transportation and distribution facilities, and home of a francophone university, Université de Moncton.
Industy and employment in New Brunswick
As a result of being so close to the Atlantic Ocean, and having mostly forested terrains, fishing and forestry are vital industries in New Brunswick. New Brunswick’s geographical positioning has allowed for them to be a leading province in these industries: the province
exported the third-highest number of Christmas trees in 2016, and was ranked third in terms of
fish exports in 2022. However, the most lucrative industry is the
real estate rental and leasing industry, which is also the one with one of the
highest labor productivity. The
GDP of New Brunswick was 31.63 billion Canadian dollars in 2021, a slight increase from the previous year. Moreover, New Brunswick has about
362,590 employed people, with
the health care and social assistance industry accounting for the largest number of jobs. However, the province had an
unemployment rate of oer seven percent in 2022, higher than the Canadian national average.
The only bilingual province
New Brunswick is the only bilingual province in the country, where both English and French are official languages, with about a third of the population speaking French. As the only bilingual province, New Brunswick has a comparatively equal divide of French and English-speaking population. Approximately 163,270 residents were of
French origin in 2016. In the province, both French and English language hospitals, healthcare systems, schools, universities, and media are represented. The government of New Brunswick is required to provide these services in both languages as a result of the high number of native French speakers in the province.
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