• Founded in 1785, Saint John is Canada’s oldest city.
• New Brunswick has the highest tides in the world, reaching up to 17 metres (56 ft)—the height of a four-storey building. Two hundred billion tonnes (220.5 billion tons) of water rush in and out of the Bay of Fundy twice a day every day!
• The famous Reversing Falls are a series of waterfalls on the Saint John River. The incoming tides from the Bay of Fundy force the falls to reverse their course and flow uphill twice a day, defying the force of gravity!
• The world’s first individually wrapped chocolate bars were made in 1910 in Saint Stephen—Canada’s Chocolate Town. They sold for five cents apiece.
• New Brunswicker and former lieutenant-governor George F. Stanley designed the Canadian flag.
• The world’s longest covered bridge is in Hartland, New Brunswick. It spans the Saint John River and measures 391 metres (1,283 ft).
• New Brunswick is Canada’s only officially bilingual province. English and French are the official provincial languages.
• In late summer, hundreds of thousands of semipalmated sandpipers, or “peeps,” feed on mud shrimp at Shepody Bay. They eat enough to double their weight (between 9,000 and 20,000 shrimp a day for two weeks) before taking off on a 4,600 kilometre (2,860 mile) non-stop flight to South America!

Capital City: Fredericton
Population: 749,800
Total Area: 72,908 square kilometres (28,150 sq miles)
Population Density: 10.30 persons per square kilometre (26.60 per sq mile)

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