LC control no. | n 81038865 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Geographic heading | New Brunswick |
Geographic subdivision usage | New Brunswick |
Variant(s) | Nouveau-Brunswick |
Beginning date | 1784 |
Associated country | Canada |
Found in | NLC 12/80 (AACR2: New Brunswick) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (adm1; 46°30ʹ00ʺN 065°59ʹ56ʺW) LAC internal file, March 25, 2019 (heading: New Brunswick) Wikipedia, March 25, 2019 (New Brunswick; (French: Nouveau-Brunswick); one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada, and the only bilingual province; being relatively close to Europe, New Brunswick was among the first places in North America to be explored and settled by Europeans, starting with the French in the early 1600s, who displaced the indigenous Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and the Passamaquoddy peoples; French settlers were in turn eventually displaced when the area became part of the British Empire; in 1784, after an influx of refugees from the American Revolutionary War, the province was partitioned from Nova Scotia; the colony was named New Brunswick in honour of George III, King of Great Britain, King of Ireland, and Prince-elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg in what is now Germany) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick> |
National bib agency no. | 0000F0005E |
Geographic area code | n-cn-nk |
Invalid LCCN | sh 85091251 |
Quality code | nlc |