page_title: The Maritimes
section_title: New Brunswick
hierarchical_section_title: The Maritimes / Industries / New Brunswick
caption_attribution_description: English: A paper mill in Saint John. This photograph has been taken with the aid of a photographic filter to artificially produce the "amber sky" effect.
context_page_description: The Maritimes, also called the Maritime provinces, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The Maritimes had a population of 1,813,606 in 2016. Together with Canada's easternmost province, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Maritime provinces make up the region of the Atlantic provinces.
  Located along the Atlantic coast, various aquatic sub-basins are located in the Maritimes, such as the Gulf of Maine and Gulf of St. Lawrence. The region is located northeast of the United States's New England, south and southeast of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, and southwest of the island of Newfoundland. The notion of a Maritime Union has been proposed at various times in Canada's history; the first discussions in 1864 at the Charlottetown Conference contributed to Canadian Confederation. This movement formed the larger Dominion of Canada. The Mi'kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people are indigenous to the Maritimes, while Acadian and British settlements date to the 17th century.
context_section_description: Agriculture and forestry are two prominent industries found in New Brunswick.  Despite having an extensive coastline, New Brunswick's industrial sector has never been entirely reliant on the success of the fisheries.  Likewise, the strong shipbuilding heritage of the province directly relates to its forest resources.  Because of this, New Brunswickers tend to attribute their cultural heritage less with the sea and more with their forests and rivers.
caption: Pulp and paper mill in new Brunswick
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