Test your knowledge of New Brunswick! The CSTM 2021 Virtual Scavenger Hunt was developed to whet your appetite for travel to New Brunswick. Each month there will be 5 factoids placed on the CSTM 2021 Conference website under Social Events. For a chance to win a prize, please complete the quiz posted that will be posted here. The quiz will be available from May 3-13th with the prize winner announced on Saturday May 15th.
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April 2021 Factoids
Get to know Moncton and New Brunswick your virtual host for the:
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- The lives of the Acadians, between 1770 and 1949, told through 40 preserved and replicated homes, shops and workshops is represented at the Village Historique Acadien near Caraquet.
Village Historique Acadien – Caraquet
- The snow blower was invented by Robert Carr Harris in Dalhousie in 1870.
- The first aboriginal woman appointed to the Senate was Sandra Lovelace Nicholas from the Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick.
- The history of Sheldrake Island in New Brunswick was used as a plot point in the novel “Bones to Ashes” by Kathy Reichs.
- New Brunswick has two National Parks designated as “Dark Sky Preserves”, Kouchibouguac and Fundy.
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- One of the last remaining North American examples of a Martello tower is the Carleton Martello Tower in Saint John.
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- The first museum established in Canada in 1842 was the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John.
- Ganong candy company, established in 1873, in Saint Stephen is Canada’s oldest independently family owned and operated chocolate company.
- The series of rapids on the Saint John River in the city of Saint John is known as the Reversing Rapids.
- A famous ocean tidal whirlpool, known as the “Old Sow” is located off the coast of Deer Island.
Shediac Giant Lobster
- In 1871, the Intercolonial Railway of Canada chose Moncton as its headquarters, and Moncton remained a railway town for more than a century until the Canadian National Railway (CN) locomotive shops closed in the late 1980s.
- Roméo LeBlanc, from Memramcook, was the 25th Governor-General of Canada and the first Acadian to occupy this position.
- The first French settlement attempted in North America was in 1604 on the island of St. Croix near St. Andrews, NB.
- The Université de Moncton is the largest French Canadian language university outside of Québec.
- The capital of New Brunswick is Fredericton.
Old Government House
- The world’s longest covered bridge which was opened in May 1901 is the Hartland Covered Bridge.
- Graydon Nicholas was the first indigenous Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.
- The motto of Moncton is Resurgo from the Latin “I rise again”. It was chosen to demonstrate the resilience of the residents when faced with collapse of the ship building industry and then again with the collapse of the railway industry.
- Andrew Bonar Law, born in Rexton NB became Prime Minster of Great Britain in 1922.
- Moncton is the geographic center of the Maritimes.
Moncton Skyline
- New Brunswick is 83% forested and is less densely populated than the rest of the Maritimes.
- Indigenous peoples, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, and Passamaquoddy have been in the area since 7000 BC and are part of the Wabanaki (DawnLand) Confederacy.
- New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual (French and English) province in Canada.
- Since 1999, the Frye Festival literary event has been held each year in Moncton.