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	Flag of New Brunswick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The flag of New Brunswick, Canada is a banner modelled after the provincial arms and was adopted by proclamation on February 24, 1965.
		The flag has the proportions 8:5; the gold lion on the red field across the top one-third of the flag represents New Brunswick's ties to both the Brunswick region in Germany and (the arms of) the King of England.
		Its appearance on the flag at sea represented shipbuilding, one of the province's main industries at the time the coat of arms was adopted and throughout much of the province's history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_of_New_Brunswick (181 words)

	New Brunswick - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		New Brunswick is bounded on the north by Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula and Chaleur Bay and on the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Northumberland Strait.
		New Brunswick's relative location away from the Atlantic coastline hindered new settlement during the immediate post war period; although there were some notable exceptions such as the founding of "The Bend" (present day Moncton) in 1766 by Pennsylvania Dutch settlers sponsored by Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Land Company.
		The situation in New Brunswick was worsened by the Great Fire of 1877 in Saint John and by the decline of the wooden sailing shipbuilding industry.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/New_Brunswick (4527 words)

	New Brunswick
		The new provincial flag was proclaimed by the Lieutenant-Governor on February 24, 1965, and that proclamation, anticipating the forthcoming status of New Brunswick as the only officially bilingual province, was printed in both languages.
		New Brunswick was one of the original four provinces to have had a flag for its lieutenant governor approved on July 16, 1870.
		Baker's flag has been used since it was revived in 1965 during the Great Decade of the Flags, but it was not considered official until sanctioned by the citizens of the republic, known as Brayons, during their first "Foire Brayonne" held in Edmunston in 1979.
	fraser.cc /FlagsCan/Provinces/NB.html (2378 words)

	Fredericton, New Brunswick - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The city is situated in the west-central portion of the province and, along with Moncton and Saint John, is one of the main urban centres in southern New Brunswick.
		A street plan was laid out to the west of the original townsite, King's College (now the University of New Brunswick) was founded, and the locale was renamed "Frederick's Town", in honour of the second son of King George III of the United Kingdom, Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York.
		The University of New Brunswick - commonly abbreviated UNB - was founded in 1785 and - along with the University of Georgia - is the oldest public university in North America.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Fredericton,_New_Brunswick (5745 words)

	Canada Flag Mart New Brunswick Flag - NB
		New Brunswick's provincial flag, based on the coat of arms, was adopted by proclamation on Feb. 24, 1965.
		The symbols depicted on the flag are taken from the Coat of Arms assigned by Queen Victoria in 1868.
		The gold lion on a red field reflects New Brunswick's relationship to England and to the Duchy of Brunswick in Germany, which in 1784, was in the possession of King George III.
	www.canadaflagmart.com /-strse-10/New-Brunswick-Flag--dsh-/Detail.bok (229 words)

	Eureka4you.com - New Brunswick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		New Brunswick's coat of arms was adopted in 1968.
		In New Brunswick, the purple violet, (Viola palmata, var, cucullata) was officially adopted in 1936.
		The New Brunswick tartan, the balsam fir, and the fl-capped chickadee.
	www.eureka4you.com /nb/nbindex.htm (145 words)

	Image:Flag of New Brunswick.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The flag may have been contributed by a user or taken and/or modified from the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook.
		Such flags are ineligible for copyright but they are protected by Article 6' of the Paris Convention (Protection of State Emblems, and Names, Abbreviations and Emblems of International Intergovernmental Organizations).
		Representations of national flags are subject to copyright as original works of art and do not fall under Bridgeman Art Library Ltd. v.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Image:Flag_of_New_Brunswick.svg (317 words)

	Detailed information about New Brunswick.
		New Brunswick, the largest of Canada's three Maritime provinces, is nestled under Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula and beside the State of Maine.
		New Brunswick covers 73,440 square kilometres in roughly a rectangle shape about 242 kilometres (150 miles) from east to west and 322 kilometres (200 miles) north to south.
		The flower was adopted as the New Brunswick floral emblem in 1936, at the request of the provincial Women's Institute.
	www.maxximvacations.com /new-brunswick/travel-tourism-information.asp (1181 words)

	Welcome to New Brunswick, Canada
		Locally, New Brunswickers were on good terms with those in Maine and the rest of New England, and there was even one incidence where the town of St.
		Following Confederation, New Brunswick suffered the effects of an economic downturn precipitated by the Great Fire of 1877 in Saint John and the decline of the sailing shipbuilding industry, and compounded by the global recession sparked by the Panic of 1893.
		New Brunswick has a complete network of English and French public schools serving from kindergarten to high school; there are also several private secondary schools having secular and religious affiliations.
	www.hometowncanada.com /nb/map.html (2702 words)

	KidZone Geography - New Brunswick Canada
		New Brunswick is one of Canada's ten provinces.
		The provincial flag was adopted on February 24, 1965.
		The purple violet was adopted as the official flower of New Brunswick in 1936, at the request of the provincial Women's Institute.
	www.kidzone.ws /geography/newbrunswick/index.htm (325 words)

	flag of New Brunswick (Canada) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
		I'm the one who sent a 1:2 flag, and yes, the flag of New Brunswick is not a 1:2 flag; I've always heard 2:3, so I'll have to look into this.
		However, the flag is 1:2 because the Canadian government has this policy that all flags flown side-by-side with the Canadian flag must be of a ratio of 1:2.
		Hence, all the flags sold at this store are of a 1:2 ratio, to fit with Canadian policy, including the French and British flags I'd bought a while back.
	www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/ca-nb.html (617 words)

	Do you Know New Brunswick
		New Brunswick was named after: a) Brunswick sardines, a favorite treat of early settlers;b) a town just outside of London famous for its brickmaking factory; c) the British Royal Family, the House of Brunswick; d) an old Irish ballad.
		New Brunswick was established by an Order-in-Council on June 18, 1784.
		New Brunswick /Nouveau -Brunswick and Grand Sault/Grand Falls are officially bilingual.
	new-brunswick.net /new-brunswick/quiz.html (978 words)

	Canadian Flag - World Flags 101 - New Brunswick Flags
		The gold lion represents New Brunswick's ties to both the Brunswick region in Germany as well as the coat of arms of the King of England.
		The flag was adopted on Feb. 24, 1965.
		New Brunswick was named, in 1784, in honor of King George III; who was the reigning monarch and also the Duke of Brunswick.
	www.worldflags101.com /canada/new-brunswick.aspx (235 words)

	New Brunswick
		New Brunswick is one of the Maritime Provinces.
		New Brunswick borders on Quebec on its left, Nova Scotia on the right and the United States (Maine) on the left and underneath.
		The population of New Brunswick is 753 000 (1998).
	sd71.bc.ca /Sd71/Edulinks/Canada/nbindex.htm (426 words)

	The Flag of New England Page
		New England is the north east corner of the United States, comprising the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
		This flag, minus the motto, was confirmed in 1971 as the Maritime Flag of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; a variant with the addition of a blue anchor, the State name and motto was adopted by the State of Maine in 1939 as that State's Maritime Flag.
		One thing to note; there is a flag being touted as "THE Flag of New England" that is blue with the cross and tree in the canton and six stars in a circle in the fly.
	www.midcoast.com /~martucci/flags/NEFlag.html (1365 words)

	Atlantic Canada - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland
		New Brunswick, however, is made up of many faces, and a bit more difficult to define.
		New Brunswick is the sole province of Atlantic Canada firmly rooted as part of the North American continent.
		The New Brunswick Cycling Route Database is the repository of collected observations about cycling in the province.
	www.atl-canadacycling.com /newbrunswick (422 words)

	Rothesay, New Brunswick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		By permission of the New Brunswick government the provincial flag, adopted in 1965 on the authority of Queen Victoria's warrant of 1868, occupies the topmost part of the hoist of the municipal flag.
		I took photos of the town flag in three different locations and it was always 1:2, unlike the images on FOTW and the town website.
		The arms (and presumably the flag) were granted January 14, 1999, by the Canadian Heraldic Authority.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ca-nb-ro.html (337 words)

	New Brunswick - Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		dopted by proclamation on February 24, 1965, the symbols on the flag were taken directly from the Armoral Bearings originally granted to New Brunswick in 1868 by Queen Victoria..
		he gold lion on a red background represents the Duchy of Brunswick, a possession of Britain's King George III who ruled in the year of New Brunswick's creation in 1784.
		The galley, with oars in the water, represents New Brunswick's early seafaring industrial history.
	www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/flagNB.htm (73 words)

	New Brunswick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Coat of Arms of New Brunswick is supported by two white tailed deer wearing Indian Wampum collars.
		The New Brunswick flag, which was adopted Feb 24, 1965, was adopted by the Lieutenant Govenor in control at the time.
		New Brunswick's flag is based on the rectangular version of the Coat Of Arms which has a gold lion on top of the flag and an ancient galley in action with oars.
	www.k12.nf.ca /acreman/Flags/nb.html (125 words)

	Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Canadian National Flag was adopted by the Canadian Parliament on October 22, 1964 and was proclaimed into law by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (the Queen of Canada) on February 15, 1965.
		The Canadian Flag (colloquially known as The Maple Leaf Flag) is a red flag of the proportions two by length and one by width, containing in its centre a white square, with a single red stylized eleven-point maple leaf centred in the white square.
		The "Royal Union Flag" (British Union Flag) is a current "official" flag of Canada per act of parliament of December 18, 1964, to "show allegiance to the crown and as a symbol of Canadian membership in the Commonwealth".
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/ca.html (3011 words)

	Neubraunschweig
		The flag of New Brunswick was adopet on 24th of February in 1965.
		It is a scutcheon flag, because it shows the design of the coat of arms of the province.
		There is a regular coat of arms for New Brunswick, with a console, shield holders (supporters), withe a crest and the motto.
	www.flaggenlexikon.de /fkanbrau.htm (597 words)

	new brunswick canada flag and description
		The flag of New Brunswick was officially adopted and hoisted on July 16, 1966.
		The golden lion is representative of new Brunswick's ties to Britain.
		All maps, graphics, flags and original descriptions created by Graphic Maps, a d/b/a of the Woolwine-Moen Group, unless otherwise noted and/or directly linked to the source, and use of same for any application whatsoever (with the exception of outline maps) requires written permission.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/flags/countrys/namerica/canada/newbrnwk.htm (197 words)

	Lithuanian Flag. Crystal charm bracelets. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The green panel on the left symbolizes the green taiga forests, while the white section, which is in the center represents the snow in the winter, and the blue on the right represents the deep blue northern waters.
		The Saskatchewan flag is divided parallel into two parts, one green, and the other gold.
		The shield of arms of the Province of Saskatchewan is in the upper corner near the staff, and the western red lily, which is the provincial floral emblem, is positioned on the other half of the flag.
	www.finecharms.com /product_lithuanian-flag-p8314.html (290 words)

	CBC New Brunswick - Historic Nunavut flag rescued from trash can (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The territorial flag made its way to New Brunswick after a teacher rescued it from a garbage can at the Iqaluit school where it was raised.
		Carey says he pulled the flag out of the garbage, and took it with him when he moved to Saint John in 2001.
		John Quirk is the clerk of the Nunavut legislature, and says he'd love to have the flag in the territory.
	www.cbc.ca /nb/story/nb-nunavut-flag20060509.html (497 words)

	Costa Rica Flag. Babysitter charm.
		This flag consists of two pairs of equal blue and white horizontal bands containing a large red stripe in the middle.
		The flag closely resembles the Canadian Red Ensign, where, the Union Jack occupies the upper quarter on the staff side, as the provincial shield is centered on the opposite half of the flag.
		The large red Inuksuk (the image in the middle) is symbolizes the stone monuments that the Inuit have used to guide their people on land and to mark the sacred and special places, and the blue star in the upper right hand corner represents the North Star, that has been the customary guide for navigation.
	www.finecharms.com /product_costa-rica-flag-p8491.html (296 words)

	The National Free Press - New Brunswick Facts
		Provincial Flag: The provincial flag of New Brunswick, based on the coat of arms, was adopted by proclamation on Feb. 24, 1965.
		Provincial Coat of Arms: The shield on the coat of arms which links New Brunswick with England through the lion and celebrates their maritime location and shipbuilding prominence, was assigned by Queen Victoria in 1868.
		Soil is important to any location as it is the one place on this planet where the rocks and minerals are in contact with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere, and where the nutrients that enter the food chain are produced and/or recycled.
	www.nationalfreepress.ca /Canadian/nb2.htm (955 words)

	CTV.ca - Man who helped design Canadian flag dead at 95- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		He was lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick from 1982 to 1987.
		Marilyn Trenholme Counsell, the province's current lieutenant-governor, said that while people will remember Stanley for his role in the design of the flag, he was also a noted scholar and a proud war veteran.
		In New Brunswick, he will be fondly remembered for his profound sense of history and his distinguished presence as lieutenant-governor for nearly six years." New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord said Stanley "served his province with pride and dignity" during a time when the province hosted Pope John Paul and Queen Elizabeth.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20020913/cdn_flag_designer_obit_020913/20020913?hub=Canada&subhub=PrintStory (413 words)

	Canadian Provinces - New Brunswick Flag
		The upper third of the flag is red with a gold lion.
		The lion is the same as found on the arms of the Duchy of Brunswick in Germany, which is the ancestral home of King George III.
		The ship refers to the importance of ship building and sailing in the early years in New Brunswick.
	www.anyflag.com /country/canada/newbruns.php (131 words)

	New Brunswick - Photos, Maps, Videos, Flags, Facts, More -- National Geographic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Arrow-straight pines logged in the mid-19th century from vast forests in New Brunswick made masts for ocean-crossing square-riggers, built in Moncton and St. John.
		New Brunswick ranks first in Canada's output of bismuth, lead, and zinc; antimony, peat, potash, copper, and silver are also important.
		The city, chartered in 1785, is New Brunswick's industrial engine.
	plasma.nationalgeographic.com /places/provinces/province_newbrunswick.html (259 words)

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