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2017 TRAVEL GUIDE TO CANADA

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EAST OF ORDINARY BY SANDRA PHINNEY The province of New Brunswick makes this bold statement on its tourism homepage: Travel East of Ordinary where original people perfectly complement the beauty of this place. Explore and discover what being East of Ordinary is all about. So be inspired. Be adventurous. Be yourself. Be East of Ordinary. Now that's a big claim, but one that the province fulfi lls in spades. 756,800 Fredericton www.tourismnewbrunswick.ca Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport, 8 km (5 mi.) from downtown Fredericton Airport, 15 km (9 mi.) from downtown Saint John Airport, 16 km (10 mi.) from downtown 756,800 Fredericton www.tourismnewbrunswick.ca Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport, 8 km (5 mi.) from downtown Fredericton Airport, 15 km (9 mi.) from downtown Saint John Airport, 16 km (10 mi.) from downtown NEW BRUNSWICK CLAIMS TO FAME For starters, New Brunswick has spawned countless larger-than-life characters. To wit: novelist Julia Hart wrote St. Ursula's Convent back in 1824—the fi rst piece of fi ction by a Canadian-born author to be published in Canada. John Peters Humphrey penned the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, and people are still talking about Yvon Durelle and his light-heavyweight championship boxing match against the great Archie Moore in 1958. Hollywood has featured many New Brunswickers on the big screen, including Donald Sutherland, Walter Pidgeon and Brett Somers. And the lists of "fi rsts" run the gamut from Willie Eldon O'Ree, the fi rst black player in the NHL, to Myrtle "Molly" Kool, the fi rst female sea captain in North America. New Brunswick is also the birthplace of other famous characters including Stompin' Tom Connors and Klondike Kate (Katherine Ryan). Abraham Gesner invented kerosene here. The list is endless: this is the stuff that New Brunswickers are made of. DEEP ROOTS Roots run deep in the province. In fact, Metepenagiag—a 3000-year-old Mi'kmaq fi shing village also known as Red Bank— is New Brunswick's oldest continuously occupied community. Along with the HOPEWELL ROCKS NB 116

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