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Moncton es una ciudad canadiense ubicada en el condado de Westmorland, al sureste de la provincia de Nuevo Brunswick. De acuerdo a los datos del penúltimo censo, el área metropolitana de Moncton es la región urbana con mayor crecimiento al este de Toronto y una de las 10 ciudades canadienses con mayor crecimiento, con un aumento de la ...
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El Museo Moncton es un museo municipal ubicado en Moncton,...
- Museo Moncton
Moncton (/ ˈ m ʌ ŋ k t ən /; French pronunciation:) is the most populous city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, Moncton lies at the geographic centre of the Maritime Provinces.
- Canada
- Westmorland
- Aboriginal Period
- Acadian Settlement
- American Settlement
- Early 19th Century
- First Incorporation
- Recession and Resurrection
- Second Incorporation, Growth, and Prosperity
- Acadian "Renaissance"
- Second Recession
- "Moncton Miracle"
The original aboriginal inhabitants of the Petitcodiac river valley were the Mi'kmaq. Moncton is situated at the southern end of a traditional native portage route between the Petitcodiac River and Shediac Bay on the nearby Northumberland Strait.
The head of the Bay of Fundy was first settled by French Acadians in the 1670s. Early settlement was centered on the region of the Tantramar Marshes but there was gradual expansion of the settled areas towards the west during the succeeding decades. The first reference to the "Petcoucoyer River" was on the de Meulles Map of 1686. The Chipodie Acadi...
In June 1766, Captain John Hall arrived from Pennsylvania armed with a land grant and a charter from the Philadelphia Land Company (one of the principal investors of which was Benjamin Franklin to establish Monckton Township on the site of the previous Acadian settlement of Le Coude. On Captain Hall's ship, the "Lovey", captained by Nathaniel Shive...
The Bend initially was, and remained for a long time, an agricultural community. Growth was extremely slow for the first 75 years of the community's existence. In fact, The Bend lagged significantly behind neighbouring towns such as Sackville, Shediac and even Dorchester. In 1788, there were only 12 families in the township and even by 1836, The Be...
The prosperity engendered by the wooden shipbuilding industry allowed The Bend to incorporate as the town of Moncton in 1855. The first mayor of Moncton was the shipbuilder Joseph Salter. The town was named after Lt. Col. Robert Monckton, the British military commander who had captured Fort Beauséjoura century earlier. A clerical error at the time ...
At about the same time as the arrival of the railway, steam-powered ships began to replace clipper ships on the ocean's sea routes and this forced an end to the era of wooden shipbuilding. The industrial collapse that developed from this, as well as the associated bankruptcy of the Westmorland Bank caused Moncton to surrender its civic charter in 1...
With the arrival of the Intercolonial Railroad, Moncton was able to reincorporate as a town in 1875 with the motto "Resurgo" (I rise again). One year later, the ICR line to Quebec was opened. The railway boom that emanated from this and the associated employment growth allowed Moncton to achieve city status on April 23, 1890. A major fire at the IC...
The Université de Moncton was founded in 1963. This began an Acadian "renaissance" which was in large measure encouraged and supported by university faculty who had been trained in Quebec during the founding years of the "Quiet Revolution". U de M, the renaissance, and the election of premier Louis Robichaud and his program of "equal opportunity" a...
The late 1970s and the 1980s again saw a period of economic hardship hit the city as several major employers closed or restructured. The Eatons catalogue division closed in 1976 and CN closed its locomotive shops facility in 1988, throwing thousands out of work and forcing the federal and provincial governments to step in with economic restructurin...
Diversification in the early 1990s saw the rise of information technology, led by call centres which made use of the city's bilingual workforce. Bilingualism was heavily promoted by premier Frank McKenna's government to attract the call centreindustry in order to provide a temporary employment "bridge" for the city as it transitioned from the old e...
Greater Moncton ( French: Grand Moncton) is a census metropolitan area comprising Moncton, Riverview, and Dieppe in New Brunswick, Canada. Population. Greater Moncton has a population of 157,717 (2021).
- 2,406.31 km² (929.08 sq mi)
- 171,608
- Canada
- New Brunswick
Website. www .moncton .ca. Moncton / ˈmʌŋktən / is a Canadian city in Westmorland County in southeastern New Brunswick. Moncton is the largest city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, and the second largest in the maritime provinces.
Moncton es una ciudad en el sureste de Nuevo Brunswick, Canadá. Se encuentra tierra adentro de la Bahía de Fundy y la Costa Acadiana. Moncton tiene una población de aproximadamente 72,000 (2016), con una población metropolitana de aproximadamente 145,000 (2016), lo que la convierte en la ciudad más grande y la ciudad metropolitana más ...
