Moncton, New Brunswick
Catharines-Niagara, ON · Halifax, NS · Oshawa, ON · Victoria, BC · Windsor, ON · Saskatoon, SK · Regina, SK · Sherbrooke, QC · St. District 2 is Anglophone and administers 25 schools in Greater Moncton.Skydive Moncton operates the province s only nationally certified sports parachute club out of this facility. The Moncton Area Control Centre is one of only seven regional air traffic control centres in Canada. Freight rail transportation in Moncton is provided by Canadian National Railway. The area s Francophone high schools are École Mathieu-Martin and École L Odyssée. Four universities have campuses in the greater Moncton region.
Both AC/DC and Bon Jovi played at the hill in 2009, with the crowd for the AC/DC concert exceeding 70,000. in the spring. The Moncton Coliseum is a 6,554-seat arena which serves as a venue for major concerts and trade shows and is the home of the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
The 2006 Memorial Cup was held in Moncton with the hometown Moncton Wildcats losing in the championship final to rival Quebec Remparts. When it was constructed, it was the tallest tower of its kind in North America.
This complex also includes a hotel, restaurant, Chapters bookstore and a multiplex cinema complex. The municipal government consists of a mayor and ten city councillors elected to four-year terms of office. The city has several recognized historical sites.
Although diversity has increased in the last decade, the visible minority population remains far below the national average. At present, the city s economy is stable and diversified, primarily based on its transportation, distribution, retailing and commercial heritage, but is supplemented by strength in the educational, health care, financial, information technology and insurance sectors.
It provides training in over 30 different trades and technology disciplines. Of the three members of Parliament that currently represent greater Moncton, two belong to the Liberal party and one belongs to the Conservative party. Separate Anglophone and Francophone school boards administer greater Moncton s 34 public primary and secondary schools.
Other public sporting and recreational facilities are scattered throughout the metropolitan area, including a new $18 million aquatic centre in Dieppe opened in 2009. Greater Moncton has many golfing facilities. Although the presence of the CNR in Moncton has diminished greatly since the 1970s, the railway still maintains a large hump yard and intermodal facility in the west end of the city.
There are three other broadcast television stations in Moncton and these represent all of the major national networks. Moncton is served by the Greater Moncton International Airport (YQM). The insurance, information technology, educational and health care sectors also are major factors in the local economy with the city s two hospitals alone employing over five thousand people. Moncton has garnered national attention because of the strength of its economy.
In 1871, the Intercolonial Railway of Canada chose Moncton to be its headquarters, and Moncton remained a railroad town for well over a century until the closure of the Canadian National Railway (CNR) locomotive shops in the late 1980s. Although the economy of Moncton was traumatized twice—by the collapse of the shipbuilding industry in the 1860s and by the closure of the CNR locomotive shops in the 1980s—the city was able to rebound strongly on both occasions. The CMA includes the city of Dieppe (population 18,565), town of Riverview (17,832), Moncton Parish (8,747), Memramcook (4,638), Coverdale (4,144), and Salisbury (2,036).
The city is located along the north bank of the Petitcodiac River at a point where the river bends acutely from a west–east to north–south flow. Petitcodiac in the Mi kmaq language has been translated as meaning bends like a bow . Migration is mostly from other areas of New Brunswick (especially the north) as well as Nova Scotia (13%) and Ontario (9%).
The metro area has a total of 12 indoor hockey rinks and three curling clubs. The GMIA is also the home of the Moncton Flight College; the largest pilot training institution in Canada.
Major snowfalls can result from nor easter ocean storms moving up the east coast of North America. Moncton generally remains a low rise city. Two major national parks, Fundy National Park and Kouchibouguac National Park, are within a one-hour drive of the city. Despite being less than 50 km (31 mi) from the Bay of Fundy and less than 30 km (19 mi) from the Northumberland Strait, the climate tends to be more continental than maritime during the summer and winter seasons, with maritime influences tempering the transitional seasons of spring and autumn. Winter days are cold but generally sunny with solar radiation generating some warmth.
Of the seven members of the Legislative Assembly that currently represent greater Moncton, five belong to the Liberal party and two belong to the Progressive Conservative party. Moncton is in the federal riding of Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe. This is due to Moncton s central location in the Maritimes: it has the largest catchment area in Atlantic Canada with 1.4 million people living within a three-hour drive of the city.
Oulton College, New Brunswick s oldest private college, provides training in a variety of business, paramedical, dental sciences, pharmacy, veterinary, youth care and paralegal programs. Moncton s daily newspaper is the Times & Transcript, which has the highest circulation of any daily newspaper in New Brunswick. The Irving operations are concentrated in the Dieppe Industrial Park.
A significant wooden shipbuilding industry had developed in the community by the mid 19th century, allowing for incorporation, but the shipbuilding economy collapsed in the 1860s. Daytime high temperatures usually range a few degrees below the freezing point.
Some of the larger centres include Asurion, BBM Canada, Exxon Mobil, Royal Bank of Canada, UPS, Fairmont Hotels, Rogers Communications and Sitel. Several arms of the Irving corporate empire have their head offices and major operations in greater Moncton. There are four Anglophone high schools in the metro Moncton area; Moncton High School, Harrison Trimble High School, Bernice MacNaughton High School and Riverview High School.
The English-language New Brunswick Community College - Moncton is the largest campus in the NBCC system with an enrollment of over 1200. A major $20 million expansion/refurbishment of the campus is underway which will allow enrollment to increase by an additional 400.
The early Acadian settlers in the region named their community Le Coude which means the elbow . The Petitcodiac river valley at Moncton is broad and relatively flat, bounded by a long ridge to the north (Lutes Mountain) and by the rugged Caledonia Highlands to the south. The confidence of the community has been bolstered by its ability to host major events such as the Francophonie Summit in 1999, a Rolling Stones concert in 2005 and the Memorial Cup in 2006. Moncton lies in southeastern New Brunswick, at the geographic centre of the Maritime Provinces.
On the Moncton side, the bridge connects with an extension of Vaughan Harvey Boulevard as well as to Assumption Boulevard and will serve as a catalyst for economic growth in the downtown area. The retail sector in Moncton has become one of the most important pillars of the local economy. Moncton Flight College is one of Canada s oldest, largest, and most prestigious flight schools.
These include Midland Transport, Majesta/Royale Tissues, Irving Personal Care, Master Packaging and Cavendish Farms. Robert Monckton Moncton s economic depression did not last long and a second era of prosperity came to the area in 1871 when Moncton was selected to be the headquarters of the Intercolonial Railway of Canada (ICR). Moncton grew rapidly during the early 20th century, particularly after provincial lobbying helped the city become the eastern terminus of the massive National Transcontinental Railway project in 1912. Moncton was placed on the Trans-Canada Highway network in the early 1960s after Route 2 was built along the northern perimeter of the city.
This base served as the main supply depot for the large wartime military establishment in the Maritimes. With the closure of CFB Moncton in the early 1990s, the military presence in Moncton has been significantly reduced. There are two major regional referral and teaching hospitals in Moncton: The Moncton Hospital has approximately 400 active treatment beds The Dr-Georges-L.-Dumont Regional Hospital also has about 400 beds Macleans Magazine has recently stated that Moncton has the best health care facilities of any of the smaller sized regional cities in Canada. Moncton has been the home of a number of notable people, including National Hockey League Hall of Famer and NHL scoring champion Gordie Drillon, Coordinates: 46°06′57″N 64°48′11″W / 46.115833°N 64.803056°W / 46.115833; -64.803056 Toronto, ON · Montreal, QC · Vancouver, BC · Ottawa, ON · Calgary, AB · Edmonton, AB · Quebec City, QC · Winnipeg, MB · Hamilton, ON · London, ON · Kitchener-Waterloo, ON · St. Other notable courses include the Moncton Golf & Country Club, Memramcook Valley Golf Club and Magnetic Hill Golf Club. The Moncton Wildcats play major junior hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL).
It is the headquarters of Medavie Blue Cross Insurance, and home to the Moncton Public Library. The Free Meeting House was built in 1821 and is a New England-style meeting house located adjacent to the Moncton Museum. Moncton is home to the Frye Festival, an annual bilingual literary celebration held in honour of world renowned literary critic and favorite son Northrop Frye.
There are about a half dozen other buildings in Moncton that range between eight and twelve stories in height, including the Delta Beausejour and Brunswick Crowne Plaza Hotels and the Terminal Plaza office complex. The most popular park in the area is Centennial Park, which contains an artificial beach, lighted cross country skiing and hiking trails, the city s largest playground, lawn bowling and tennis facilities, a boating pond, a treetop adventure course and Rocky Stone Field, the city s only football field with artificial turf. Moncton s linguistic majority is English, though the city has an active French-speaking Acadian minority population (34,1%). The metropolitan area has grown by 6.5% since 2001. Robert Monckton, the British officer who had captured nearby Fort Beauséjour a century earlier.
McEwen Airfield (CCG4) is a private airstrip used for general aviation and is located off of Elmwood Drive. 62% of new arrivals to the city are Anglophone and 38% are Francophone. The underpinnings of the local economy are based on Moncton s heritage as a commercial, distribution, transportation and retailing centre.
A $90 million casino/hotel/entertainment complex will open at Magnetic Hill by 2010. Moncton s Capitol Theatre, an 800-seat restored 1920s-era vaudeville house on Main Street, is the main centre for cultural entertainment for the city. The Moncton-based Atlantic Ballet Theatre tours mainly in Atlantic Canada but also tours nationally and internationally on occasion. The Aberdeen Cultural Centre is a major Acadian cultural cooperative containing multiple studios and galleries. All three industrial parks also have large concentrations of warehousing and regional trucking facilities. A new four-lane Gunningsville Bridge was opened in 2005, connecting downtown Riverview directly with downtown Moncton.
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border. The Metro Moncton Area is served by Codiac Transit, which is operated by the City of Moncton. Major retail projects such as Champlain Place in Dieppe and the Wheeler Park Power Centre on Trinity Drive have become major destinations for locals and for tourists alike.
The Irving group of companies employs about 5000 people in the Moncton region. There are three large industrial parks in the metropolitan area. The most popular of the stations are the country station XL96 (96.9 FM), and the classic Rock station C103 (103.1 FM). Rogers Cable has its provincial headquarters and main production facilities in Moncton and broadcasts on two community channels, Cable 9 in French and Cable 10 in English.
Moncton (pronounced /ˈmʌŋktən/) is a Canadian city located in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. Passenger rail transportation is provided by VIA Rail Canada, which operates the Ocean six days per week to Halifax and to Montreal.
Today, Magnetic Hill, on the city s northwest outskirts, is the city s most famous attraction. This wave would occur twice a day at the incoming of the high tide, travelling at an average speed of 13 km/h (8 mph) and producing an audible roar. There are many natural attractions near Moncton.
The town subsequently lost its charter in 1862 but regained it in 1875 when the community s economy rebounded, mainly due to a growing railway industry. There are nine 18-hole golf courses in the census metropolitan area, two of which are residential courses and two more of which are undergoing residential conversion with courseside housing developments under construction.
The Atlantic Business College offers a variety of business, paramedical and paralegal programs. District 1 is Francophone and administers nine schools in the Moncton area.
Subsequent development saw Route 15 built between the city and Shediac. The late 1970s and the 1980s again saw a period of economic hardship hit the city as several major employers closed or restructured. Diversification in the early 1990s saw the rise of information technology, led by call centres which made use of the city s bilingual workforce. The growth of the community has continued unabated since the 1990s and has been accelerating. The New Brunswick Casino, which also encompasses a hotel and convention centre will open at Magnetic Hill in 2010. At present, the major destinations for shopping enthusiasts are the Wheeler Park Power Centre and Champlain Place, which, at 816,000 square feet (75,800 m2), Crystal Palace, an indoor amusement park with a dozen rides including a roller coaster and a wave swinger was built adjacent to Champlain Place in 1990 to take advantage of the tourist traffic generated by the mall.
The city s skyline however encompasses many buildings and structures with varying architectural styles from many periods. Day to day operation of the city is under the control of a City Manager. The greater Moncton area contains seven of New Brunswick s 55 provincial electoral districts: Moncton North, Moncton Crescent, Moncton East, Moncton West, Riverview, Memramcook-Lakeville-Dieppe, and Dieppe Centre-Lewisville.
The strength of the economy has received national recognition and the local unemployment rate is consistently less than the national average. French Acadians first settled the head of the Bay of Fundy in the 1670s. In 1755, nearby Fort Beausejour was captured by English forces under the command of Lt. Champlain Place has recently undergone a $14 million renovation and a new power center is under construction on Mapleton road, adjacent to Wheeler Park. Tourism is an important industry in Moncton and historically owes its origins to the presence of two natural attractions, the tidal bore of the Petitcodiac River (see above) and the optical illusion of Magnetic Hill.
The Université de Moncton is the largest French-language university in Canada outside of Quebec. In 1940, a large military supply base (later known as CFB Moncton) was constructed on a railway spur line north of downtown next to the CNR shops.
The most dominant structure in the city is the Aliant Tower, a 127-metre (417 ft) microwave communications tower built in 1971. The CMA includes the neighbouring city of Dieppe and the town of Riverview, as well as the adjacent areas of Westmorland and Albert counties. Although the area was originally settled in 1733, Moncton is considered to have been officially founded in 1766 with the arrival of Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It is a gravity hill optical illusion, where the local topography gives the impression that you are going uphill when in fact you are going downhill. The Magnetic Hill Illusion is a popular tourism draw and both the city and province have built major tourism developments on the surrounding properties to capitalize on this. Moncton lies at the original head of navigation on the river, however a causeway to Riverview (constructed in 1968) resulted in extensive sedimentation of the river channel downstream and rendered the Moncton area of the waterway unnavigable. The Petitcodiac River exhibits one of North America s few tidal bores: a regularly occurring wave that travels up the river on the leading edge of the incoming tide.
This event attracts noted writers and poets from around the world and takes place in the month of April. The Atlantic Nationals Automotive Extravaganza, held each July, is the largest annual gathering of classic cars in Canada. The downtown VIA station has been recently refurbished. Moncton lies on Route 2 of the Trans-Canada Highway, which leads to Nova Scotia in the east and to Fredericton and Quebec in the west.
The construction of this new stadium has led directly to Moncton being awarded a regular season neutral site CFL game, which will be held in September 2010. The community has gained the nickname Hub City because of its central location and also because Moncton has historically been the railway and land transportation hub for the Maritime Provinces. Moncton, with a population of 126,424, is the most populous census metropolitan area (CMA) in New Brunswick . The Moncton CMA is one of the top ten fastest growing metropolitan areas in Canada and is also the fastest growing urban region east of Toronto.
Among other tenants, the Centre houses the Galerie Sans Nom, the principal private art gallery in the city. The city s two main museums are the Moncton Museum on Mountain Road and the Musée Acadien at Université de Moncton. McKenzie College is a visual arts institution specializing in graphic design, digital media and animation.
The tidal bore was the first phenomenon to become an attraction but the construction of the Petitcodiac causeway in the 1960s effectively exterminated the attraction. Molson/Coors opened a brewery in the Caledonia Industrial Park in 2007, their first new brewery in over fifty years.
Col. The school enrolls over 4000 students and offers a variety of undergraduate and post-graduate degree programs, including a School of Law as well as a number of health sciences disciplines including an MD degree program (offered in conjunction with the Universite de Sherbrooke). Moncton is also home to two community colleges.
The airport also has service to seven seasonal destinations, with operators including, Canjet, Skyservice and Sunwing Airlines. The GMIA is also a major air cargo centre with both FedEx and Purolator having their Atlantic Canadian bases at the facility. Ten of these stations are English and five are French.
Route 15 intersects Route 2 at the eastern outskirts of Moncton, heads northeast leading to Shediac and northern New Brunswick, Route 16 connects to route 15 at Shediac and leads to Prince Edward Island. The city is situated in southeastern New Brunswick, within the Petitcodiac River Valley, and lies at the geographic centre of the Maritime Provinces.
The Magnetic Hill Concert Site has developed a reputation for holding the largest concert productions in the entire country. It operates 40 buses on 22 routes throughout Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview. Moncton is the headquarters of the Acadian Lines interprovincial bus service. Aside from locally formed militia units, the military did not have a significant presence in the Moncton area until the beginning of the Second World War.
In addition to the above, the GMIA also is the base for the regional RCMP air service, the New Brunswick Air Ambulance Service and the regional Transport Canada hangar and depot. There is a second smaller aerodrome located in Moncton as well. Initially an agricultural settlement, Moncton was not incorporated until 1855.
Moncton, a free weekly publication offering a more youthful perspective on local news, and L Acadie Nouvelle a French newspaper published in Caraquet in northern New Brunswick. There are 15 broadcast radio stations in the city covering a variety of genres and interests, all on the FM dial. It is a popular family destination and has Top Attraction status with tourism New Brunswick.
This will be the first neutral site regular season game in the history of the Canadian Football League. Major sporting events hosted by Moncton include: Magnetic Hill is on the northwestern outskirts of Moncton and is now the city s most famous attraction. The city adopted the motto Resurgo after its rebirth as a railway town.
In 2006 they won the President s Cup, the QMJHL championship. 1 - Canadian Senior Champ. Moncton has hosted many large sporting events. The GMIA handles nearly 575,000 passengers per year, making it the second busiest airport in the Maritime provinces in terms of passenger volume.
It was named after Lt. There are four wards electing two councillors each with an additional two councillors selected at large by the general electorate.
Maple Leaf Foods is a major employer in the city and is in the Moncton Industrial Park. The local unemployment rate averages around 6%, which is below the national average. A number of nationally or regionally prominent corporations have their head offices in Moncton including Atlantic Lottery Corporation, Assumption Life Insurance, Medavie Blue Cross Insurance, Armour Transportation Systems, Imvescor, Major Drilling Group International, PropertyGuys.com and Co-op Atlantic. There are 37 call centres in the city which employ over 5000 people.
The French-language arm of the CBC, (Radio-Canada (SRC)) maintains its Atlantic Canadian headquarters in Moncton. The GMIA is also the 15th busiest airport in Canada in terms of aircraft movements. Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz, Westjet and Continental Express are the airport s regularly scheduled airlines with destinations including Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton and New York City.
Route 1 intersects Route 2 approximately 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of the city and leads to Saint John and the U.S. The council is non-partisan with the mayor serving as the chairman, casting a ballot only in cases of a tie vote.
Originally, the bore was very impressive, sometimes between one and two metres (3.2–6.4 ft) in height and extending across the kilometre (.62 mi) width of the Petitcodiac River in the Moncton area. which makes it the largest metropolitan area in the province of New Brunswick and the second largest in the Maritime Provinces after Halifax.
The Magnetic Hill area includes (in addition to the phenomenon itself), a major water park, zoo, and an outdoor concert facility. The bore is as a result of the extreme tides of the Bay of Fundy.
Statistics Canada estimates that the 2008 metropolitan population is 132,160. Historically, the population of the city has been racially homogenous with almost all residents originating from northwestern Europe. The French-language New Brunswick Community College - Dieppe also provides training in the trades and technology sectors. Moncton s four private vocational schools offer practical training in a variety of fields.
Both the Royal Oaks and Fox Creek golf clubs can be considered championship courses, with Royal Oaks being the first Rees Jones designed golf course in Canada. Portions of Dieppe are in the federal riding of Beauséjour, and portions of Riverview are in the riding of Fundy Royal.
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