Edmundston

Edmundston is a Ville Comté of Madawaska located at the junction of the Fleuve Midsummer's Day and Rivière Madawaska in the North-West of the New Brunswick, Canada. A bridge spanning the Midsummer's Day river connects the downtown area of Edmundston to the small municipality of Madawaska, Maine with the the United States. The city is located at only some Kilomètres of the border of the Quebec. It counts nearly 17.000 inhabitants. The city is quasi-entièrement Francophone (98% of the population), which in fact - out of Quebec of course more the unilingual big city French-speaking in anglophone North America ( New Brunswick being bilingual but mainly anglophone ).

Description

The population, according to the Census of 2006, was of 16.643 inhabitants. With 98% of its population having the French like native tongue, Edmundston is more Francophone of the eight big cities of the New Brunswick (followed by Dieppe, French-speaking person with 80%; then by Moncton with 34% of French-speaking people).

Edmundston is a university center of education and collegial with inter alia a Community Collège of New Brunswick (CCNB) and the Université of Moncton - campus of Edmundston (UMCE), which lodges the international Center for the development of the French info highway (CIDIF) .

Administration

The Maire is Gerald Allain and the city council men are Michel Dubé, Charles E. Baker, Louis J. Lavoie, Aldéo NR. Nadeau, Don Moreau, Gerald G. Morneault, Réal Morneault and Ben Beaulieu. Edmundston was the Chef-lieu Comté of Madawaska of its creation in 1873 until the abolition of the governments of county, in the Années 1960.

Economy

Forest industry is an important part of local industry. In spite of several series of settings to foot in the years 1990 and 2000, the factory of Pulp paper of Fraser Papers always constitutes one of the principal manufacturing employers of the city with approximately 400 employees.

Other manufacturing companies, as Ensigns Pattison Sign Group (panel-signs), Nadeau Firm Avicolous (transformation of the Poultry) and IPL Plastics (containers in plastic) benefit from the geographical position of the city to stimulate their growth.

The town of Edmundston has two hydroelectric power stations , of which one built in 1911.

Media

Edmundston is served by four newspapers ( Madawaska , the Republic , Acadie Nouvelle and Information Weekend), two radio stations (CJEM, CFAI) and a regional office of Radio-Canada.

Festivals and tourism

Each year in August, it is held in Edmundston a great cultural festival called the Foire Brayonne . It is about the largest Canadian French-speaking cultural festival in the east of Quebec. In each June, the city also accommodates the Jazz festival and of Blues of Edmundston .

Principal tourist attractions of the city include:

  • the Botanical garden of New Brunswick is located in the Saint-Jacob district, on a surface of seven hectares and containing more than 80.000 plants, by thus making the largest botanical garden in the east of Montreal;
  • the Museum of the car;
  • the Fort of P' tit Sault, a former strong British soldier builds in 1841;
  • the linear Park interprovincial Small Témis, a cycle track of 130 km which connects Edmundston to River-of-Wolf, with the Quebec;
  • Historical Museum of Madawaska
Also let us note the presence with the municipal airport of the bomber Lancaster KB-882.

Personalities

  • Roch Neighbor singer, actor (born and high in the district Saint-Basile)

  • Alpha Butcher actor.
  • Maurice Bolyer (born Beaulieu), player of banjo which published in the Tommy Hunter Show
  • Roland Nightingale, former player of the National league of hockey which evolved/moved for the Canadian of Montreal and the Red Wings de Détroit in the middle of the Forties.
  • Camille Dubé, presenter of sports for Radio-Canada, more particularly at the time of televised parts of the Expos of Montreal.
  • Gallant Paul, creator of headache 3D and the company Wrebbit.
  • Bernard old Valcourt Minister of Fishings and Oceans Canada
  • Ty Laforest, player of the Red Sox of Boston of the major League of baseball.
  • Jacques Savoy, novelist, author of the revolving Doors , novel adapted to the cinema.
  • Natasha St-Pier, born in Bathurst, but grew in Edmundston

Évêché

External bonds

  • Town of Edmundston
  • University of Moncton campus of Edmundston
    • international Center for the development of the French info highway
  • the Fair Brayonne
  • Google Map
  • Edmundston Jazz Festival
  • Regional Multipurpose Center

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