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. . As of January 30 2019, Lake Ontario Basin 2 Geography Line 6 Finch West is a planned 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) 19-stop light rail line scheduled for completion in 2023 it was also originally a part of the Transit City proposal New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation: [nuvob??nzw?k] (About this soundlisten)) is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada According to the Constitution of Canada New Brunswick is the only bilingual province About two-thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones and one third francophones One-third of the population describes themselves as bilingual Atypically for Canada only about half of the population lives in urban areas mostly in Greater Moncton Greater Saint John and the capital Fredericton Unlike the other Maritime provinces New Brunswick's terrain is mostly forested uplands with much of the land further from the coast giving it a harsher climate New Brunswick is 83% forested and less densely-populated than the rest of the Maritimes Being relatively close to Europe New Brunswick was among the first places in North America to be explored and settled by Europeans starting with the French in the early 1600s who displaced the indigenous Mi'kmaq Maliseet and the Passamaquoddy peoples the French settlers were later displaced when the area became part of the British Empire in 1784 after an influx of refugees from the American Revolutionary War the province was partitioned from Nova Scotia in 1785 Saint John became Canada's first incorporated city the province prospered in the early 1800s and the population grew rapidly reaching about a quarter of a million by mid-century in 1867 New Brunswick was one of four founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation along with Nova Scotia and the Province of Canada (now Ontario and Quebec) After Confederation wooden shipbuilding and lumbering declined while protectionism disrupted trade ties with New England the mid-1900s found New Brunswick to be one of the poorest regions of Canada now mitigated by Canadian transfer payments and improved support for rural areas as of 2002 provincial gross domestic product was derived as follows: services (about half being government services and public administration) 43%; construction manufacturing and utilities 24%; real estate rental 12%; wholesale and retail 11%; agriculture forestry fishing hunting mining oil and gas extraction 5%; transportation and warehousing 5% Tourism accounts for about 9% of the labour force directly or indirectly Popular destinations include Fundy National Park and the Hopewell Rocks Kouchibouguac National Park and Roosevelt Campobello International Park in 2013 64 cruise ships called at Port of Saint John carrying on average 2600 passengers each Contents. .

. . 1 History HMS Sir Issac Brock being built in York Both sides engaged in building freshwater fleets in an effort to gain naval supremacy in Lake Ontario York the capital of Upper Canada stood on the north shore of Lake Ontario During the War of 1812 the lake was both the front line between Upper Canada and the United States and served as the principal British supply line from Quebec to the various forces and outposts to the west At the start of the war the British had a small naval force the Provincial Marine with which they seized control of the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie This was made it possible because of Major General Isaac Brock who led British forces in Upper Canada to several important victories in 1812 by shifting his small force rapidly between threatened points to defeat disjointed American attacks individually The United States Navy appointed Commodore Isaac Chauncey to regain control of the lakes He created a squadron of fighting ships at Sackett's Harbor New York by purchasing and arming several lake schooners and laying down new purpose-built fighting vessels However no decisive action was possible before the onset of winter during which the ships of both sides were confined to harbour by ice to match Chauncey's shipbuilding efforts the British laid down the sloop of war Wolfe at Kingston; and HMS Sir Isaac Brock at York Naval Shipyards Prelude. . . Methodists 82,923 2016 75 41 407 581 In addition to snowstorms ice storms windstorms heavy rainfall events associated with tropical storms or very severe thunderstorms Tornadoes are rare but do occur Tornado warnings have been posted for the city on a few occasions in the early 21st century however no touchdowns have been confirmed in the city since a weak tornado hit Scarborough in the mid-1990s a pair of dangerous F2 tornados did touchdown in neighbouring Vaughan on August 20 during the 2009 tornado season Further information: Effects of Hurricane Hazel in Canada.