OLD NEW BRUNSWICK

Doyle, Arthur (Introduction by)

ISBN 10: 0195402936 / ISBN 13: 9780195402933

Published by Oxford University Press, 1978

About this Item

A Victorian Portrait. Photographs selected by Richard Vroom. Good+ condition with slightly chipped and worn dust jacket. Personal inscription on first front end page. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.

Seller Inventory # 05173

Bibliographic Details

• Title: OLD NEW BRUNSWICK
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195402936
• ISBN 13: 9780195402933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only constitutionally bilingual province in the federation. The province's name comes from the English and French partial transcription of the city of Brunswick in northern Germany the ancestral home of the Hanoverian King George III of Great Britain. It is bounded by: on the north by Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula and Chaleur Bay; along the east coast by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Northumberland Strait; in the southeast corner the narrow Isthmus of Chignecto connects New Brunswick to the Nova Scotia peninsula; in the south by the Bay of Fundy coast, and in the west by the U.S. state of Maine.New Brunswick, one of the four original provinces of Canada, entered the Canadian Confederation In 1867. The Charlottetown Conference of 1864, which ultimately led to the confederation movement, had been intended to discuss only a Maritime Union, but concerns over the American Civil War as well as Fenian activity along the border led to an interest in expanding the scope of the proposed union. This interest in an expanded union arose from the Province of Canada and a request was made by the Canadian political leaders to the organizers of the Maritime conference to have the meeting agenda altered. Although the Maritime leaders were swayed by the arguments of the Canadians, many ordinary residents wanted no part of this larger confederation for fear that their interests and would be ignored in a wider national union. Following confederation, the fears of the anti-confederates were proven correct as new policies and trade barriers were adopted by the central government, thus disrupting the historic trading relationship between the Maritime Provinces and New England. The situation in New Brunswick was exacerbated by both the Great Fire of 1877 in Saint John and the decline of the wooden shipbuilding industry; skilled workers were thus forced to move to other parts of Canada or to the US to seek employment.