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Sítio. www.fredericton.ca. Fredericton é a capital da província canadense de Novo Brunswick. A cidade está situada no centro-oeste da província ao longo do rio Saint John, que flui de oeste a leste, pois corta a cidade, o rio é a característica natural mais dominante da área.
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Fredericton (/ ˈ f r ɛ. d r ɪ k. t ən /; French pronunciation: [fʁedeʁiktœn]) is the capital city of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The city is situated in the west-central portion of the province along the Saint John River , also known by its Indigenous name of Wolastoq , which flows west to east as it bisects the city.
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Fredericton é a capital da província canadense de Novo Brunswick. A cidade está situada no centro-oeste da província ao longo do rio Saint John, que flui de oeste a leste, pois corta a cidade, o rio é a característica natural mais dominante da área.
Fredericton (distaget /ˈfɹɛdɹɪktən/ e saozneg ; /fʁedeʁiktœn/ e galleg) zo ur gêr eus Kanada. Kêr-benn proviñs Brunswick-Nevez eo hag an eil kêr vrasañ eo er broviñs. Annezet eo gant 50 535 a dud (e 2006 ).
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The area of the present-day City of Fredericton was first used for seasonal farming by the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet peoples. Maizewas a primary crop they grew in the area. In a sense, the site of Fredericton served as a sort of capital for First Nations in the area. Aucpaque, the "principal village" of the Aboriginals in the area, was located a few kil...
The first European contact in the area was by the French in the late 17th Century, who granted the land to Joseph de Villebon. In 1692, he built a fort (Fort Nashwaak) on the north side of the Saint John River, at the mouth of the Nashwaak River. For a period, Fort Nashwaak served as the capital of the French colony of Acadia. Acadian Governor Vill...
The Fredericton area was first permanently settled and named Pointe-Sainte-Anne (often anglicized to Ste. Anne's Point) in 1732 by Acadians fleeing Nova Scotia after the British took over the territory. Their townsite was on the south side of the river, approximately a mile upriver from Fort Nashwaak. The British captured Ste. Anne's Point during t...
In 1829, the Old Arts Building was completed to house King's College (later to become the University of New Brunswick). In 1848, Christ Church Cathedral (part of the Church of England) was built, allowing Fredericton to achieve city status. A Maliseet settlement, today called the St. Mary's First Nation, was founded on the north side of the river i...
Until Gibson (now referred to as the neighbourhood of Devon) was merged with Fredericton in 1945, the corporate limit of the city of Fredericton was restrained to the south side. During the post-war period until the end of the 1970s, Fredericton experienced a significant growth in population as the University of New Brunswick expanded, Saint Thomas...
McIntyre, Glen, Bruce Oliver and Bob Watson, "A Valuable and Important Place – Fredericton's Loyalist Origins 1783." A Fredericton Historical Research Project, 1983.
De acordo com o censo canadense de 2016, cerca de 71,8 mil pessoas residem em Moncton, maior cidade da província, 67,5 mil vivem em Saint John e 58,2 mil vivem na capital Fredericton, que é a terceira maior cidade da província de Novo Brunswick.
