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Abraham Pineo Gesner

Abraham Pineo Gesner, ONB (May 2, 1797 – April 29, 1864) was a Nova Scotian and New Brunswickan physician and geologist who invented kerosene.

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Acadia

Acadia (Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River.

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Acadians

The Acadians (Acadiens) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.

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Advocate Harbour

Advocate Harbour (2011 pop.: 826) is a rural community located in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Agricultural fencing

In agriculture, fences are used to keep animals in or out of an area.

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Airmail

Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air.

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Albert County, New Brunswick

Albert County (2016 population 29,158) is New Brunswick's third-youngest county, located on the Western side of the Petitcodiac River on the Chignecto Bay in the Bay of Fundy; the shire town is Hopewell Cape.

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Albertite

Albertite is a variety of asphalt found in the Albert Formation in Albert County, New Brunswick, and in a deposit at Dingwall, in the north-east of Scotland.

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Alluvium

Alluvium is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings.

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Alnus incana

Alnus incana, the grey alder, tag alder or speckled alder, is a species of multi-stemmed, shrubby tree in the birch family, with a wide range across the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Amazon River

The Amazon River (Río Amazonas, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century the Amazon basin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru.

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Amec Foster Wheeler

Amec Foster Wheeler plc was a British multinational consultancy, engineering and project management company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Bank of Canada

The Bank of Canada (BoC; Banque du Canada) is a Crown corporation and Canada's central bank.

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Battle of Petitcodiac

The Battle of Petitcodiac was an engagement which occurred during the Bay of Fundy campaign of the French and Indian War.

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Battle of the Plains of Abraham

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec (Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham, Première bataille de Québec), was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War to describe the North American theatre).

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Beaubassin

Beaubassin was an important Acadian village and trading centre on the Isthmus of Chignecto in what is now Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Benoni Danks

Benoni Danks (1716 – 1776) was a New England soldier and politician who acted as the representative of Cumberland County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1765 to 1770.

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Birdwatching

Birdwatching, or birding, is the observing of birds, either as a recreational activity or as a form of citizen science.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Caddisfly

The caddisflies, or order Trichoptera, are a group of insects with aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults.

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Calcareous

Calcareous is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment

The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) is an inter-governmental organization in Canada with members from the federal government, ten provincial governments and three territorial governments.

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Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

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Canoe.com

Canoe.com is an English-language Canadian portal site and website network, and is a subsidiary of Postmedia Network.

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Causeway

A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water".

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CBC News

CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Centennial Park (Moncton)

Centennial Park (Parc du Centenaire) is a municipal park in Moncton, New Brunswick.

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Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot

Charles Deschamps de Boishébert (also known as Courrier du Bois, Bois Hebert) was a member of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine and was a significant leader of the Acadian militia's resistance to the Expulsion of the Acadians.

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Charles Lawrence (British Army officer)

Brigadier-General Charles Lawrence (14 December 1709 – 19 October 1760) was a British military officer who, as lieutenant governor and subsequently governor of Nova Scotia, is perhaps best known for overseeing the Expulsion of the Acadians and settling the New England Planters in Nova Scotia.

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Chignecto Bay

Chignecto Bay (Baie de Chignectou) is an inlet of the Bay of Fundy located between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and separated from the waters of the Northumberland Strait by the Isthmus of Chignecto.

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Cicuta

Cicuta, commonly known as water hemlock, is a genus of four species of highly poisonous plants in the family Apiaceae.

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Cocagne

Cocagne is a Canadian community, formerly part of an eponymous local service district (LSD) and later incorporated rural community, in Kent County, New Brunswick.

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel.

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Conglomerate (geology)

Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.

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Coverdale Parish, New Brunswick

Coverdale is a geographic parish in Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada, located along the Petitcodiac River opposite Moncton and Dieppe.

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Cumberland Basin (Canada)

Cumberland Basin is an inlet and northeasternmost part of the Bay of Fundy, located on the border between the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

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Daphnia

Daphnia is a genus of small planktonic crustaceans, in length.

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Department of Environment (New Brunswick)

The Department of Environment was the Government of New Brunswick ministry charged with planning land use, zoning development and waste management as well as the enforcement of environmental legislation and regulations.

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Department of Transportation (New Brunswick)

The Department of Transportation is a part of the Government of New Brunswick.

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Depression (geology)

In geology, a depression is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area.

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Dieppe, New Brunswick

Dieppe is a city in the Canadian maritime province of New Brunswick.

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Discharge (hydrology)

In hydrology, discharge is the volumetric flow rate (volume per time, in units of m3/h or ft3/h) of a stream.

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Dragon boat

A dragon boat is a human-powered watercraft originating from the Pearl River Delta region of China's southern Guangdong Province.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Dwarf wedgemussel

The dwarf wedgemussel (Alasmidonta heterodon) is an endangered species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC; Environnement et Changement climatique Canada)Environment and Climate Change Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of the Environment.

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Environmental degradation

Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.

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Escherichia coli

Escherichia coliWells, J. C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.

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European and North American Railway

The European and North American Railway (E&NA) is the name for three historic Canadian and American railways which were built in New Brunswick and Maine.

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Expulsion of the Acadians

The Expulsion of the Acadians was the forced removal of inhabitants of the North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain.

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Felsic

In geology, felsic is a modifier describing igneous rocks that are relatively rich in elements that form feldspar and quartz.

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Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO; Pêches et Océans Canada, MPO) is a department of the Government of Canada that is responsible for developing and implementing policies and programs in support of Canada's economic, ecological and scientific interests in oceans and inland waters.

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French and Indian War

The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Freshwater mollusc

Freshwater molluscs are those members of the Phylum Mollusca which live in freshwater habitats, both lotic (flowing water) such as rivers, streams, canals, springs, and cave streams (stygobite species) and lentic (still water) such as lakes, ponds (including temporary or vernal ponds), and ditches.

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Fundy National Park

Fundy National Park is a national park of Canada located on the Bay of Fundy, near the village of Alma, New Brunswick.

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Google Maps

Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google.

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Government of New Brunswick

The Government of New Brunswick (Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick) is the provincial government of the province of New Brunswick.

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Grand-Bouctouche

Grand-Bouctouche is a Canadian town in Kent County, New Brunswick.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Greater Moncton

Greater Moncton is a census metropolitan area comprising Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview in New Brunswick, Canada.

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Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport

Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport (GMIA, Aéroport international Roméo-LeBlanc du Grand Moncton) or Moncton/Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport is located in the city of Dieppe east northeast of downtown Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Gulf of Maine

The Gulf of Maine is a large gulf of the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of North America.

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Gunningsville Bridge

The Gunningsville Bridge has been a name given to five different bridges that crossed the Petitcodiac River between Moncton at Route 106 and Riverview, New Brunswick at Route 114, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Gypsum

Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula.

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Halls Creek, Western Australia

Halls Creek is a town situated in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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Hillsborough, New Brunswick

Hillsborough is a former village in Albert County in the province of New Brunswick, Canada.

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Hooghly River

The Hooghly River (Anglicized alternatively spelt as Hoogli or Hugli) or popularly called Ganga or Kati-Ganga in the Puranas, is a river that rises close to Giria, which lies north of Baharampur and Palashi in Murshidabad.

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Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick

Hopewell Cape is a Canadian village and headland in Albert County, New Brunswick at the northern end of Shepody Bay and the mouth of the Petitcodiac River.

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Hopewell Rocks

The Hopewell Rocks, also called the Flowerpot Rocks or simply the Rocks, are rock formations known as sea stacks caused by tidal erosion in the Hopewell Rocks Ocean Tidal Exploration Site at the Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park in New Brunswick, Canada.

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Hydrachnidia

Hydrachnidia, also known as "water mites", Hydrachnidiae, Hydracarina or Hydrachnellae, are among the most abundant and diverse groups of benthic arthropods, composed of 6,000 described species from 57 families.

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Hypothermia

Hypothermia is defined as a body core temperature below in humans.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Intercolonial Railway

The Intercolonial Railway of Canada, also referred to as the Intercolonial Railway (ICR), was a historic Canadian railway that operated from 1872 to 1918, when it became part of Canadian National Railways.

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Isthmus of Chignecto

The Isthmus of Chignecto is an isthmus bordering the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia that connects the Nova Scotia peninsula with North America.

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Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just

Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just (Jean Biencourt, Baron of Poutrincourt and Saint-Just) (1557–1615) was a member of the French nobility best remembered as a commander of the French colonial empire, one of those responsible for establishing the most successful among early attempts to establish a permanent settlement in the North American territory that became known as Acadia, a region of New France.

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Jean-Louis Le Loutre

Abbé Jean-Louis Le Loutre (26 September 1709 – 30 September 1772) was a Catholic priest and missionary for the Paris Foreign Missions Society.

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Jonathan Creek

Jonathan Creek is a long-running British mystery crime drama series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick.

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Jonathan Creek (New Brunswick)

Jonathan Creek is a tributary of the Petitcodiac River in New Brunswick. Petitcodiac River and Jonathan Creek (New Brunswick) are rivers of New Brunswick.

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Joseph Broussard

Joseph Broussard (1702–1765), also known as Beausoleil (Beautiful Sun), was a leader of the Acadian people in Acadia; later Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick.

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Karst

Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.

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Kennebecasis River

The Kennebecasis River is a tributary of the Saint John River in southern New Brunswick, Canada. Petitcodiac River and Kennebecasis River are rivers of New Brunswick.

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Kerosene

Kerosene, or paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum.

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Kings County, New Brunswick

Kings County is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada.

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Larix laricina

Larix laricina, commonly known as the tamarack, hackmatack, eastern larch, black larch, red larch, or American larch, is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the upper northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville Swamp, West Virginia; there is also an isolated population in central Alaska.

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Leachate

A leachate is any liquid that, in the course of passing through matter, extracts soluble or suspended solids, or any other component of the material through which it has passed.

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Least sandpiper

The least sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) is the smallest shorebird.

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List of bodies of water of New Brunswick

This is a List of bodies of water in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, including waterfalls. Petitcodiac River and List of bodies of water of New Brunswick are rivers of New Brunswick.

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Maclean's

Maclean's, founded in 1905, is a Canadian news magazine reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events.

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Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.

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Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language

Maliseet-Passamaquoddy (skicinuwatuwewakon or skicinuwi-latuwewakon) is an endangered Algonquian language spoken by the Wolastoqey and Passamaquoddy peoples along both sides of the border between Maine in the United States and New Brunswick, Canada.

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Marine mammal

Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence.

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Mary's Point

Mary's Point is a wetland in Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Mastodon

A mastodon ('breast' + 'tooth') is a member of the genus Mammut (German for "mammoth"), which, strictly defined, was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to the early Holocene.

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Mi'kmaq

The Mi'kmaq (also Mi'gmaq, Lnu, Miꞌkmaw or Miꞌgmaw) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands, indigenous to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as Native Americans in the northeastern region of Maine.

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Mi'kmaq language

The Mi'kmaq language, or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United States; the total ethnic Mi'kmaq population is roughly 20,000.

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Miramichi River

The Miramichi River is a river located in the east-central part of New Brunswick, Canada. Petitcodiac River and Miramichi River are rivers of New Brunswick.

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Miramichi, New Brunswick

Miramichi is the largest city in northern New Brunswick, Canada.

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Mississippian (geology)

The Mississippian (also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous) is a subperiod in the geologic timescale or a subsystem of the geologic record.

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Monarchy of the United Kingdom

The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by the United Kingdom by which a hereditary monarch reigns as the head of state, with their powers regulated by the British Constitution.

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Moncton

Moncton is the most populous city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Moraine

A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.

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Mudstone

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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Natural Resources Canada

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan; Ressources naturelles Canada; label)Natural Resources Canada is the applied title under the Federal Identity Program; the legal title is Department of Natural Resources.

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Nerepis, New Brunswick

Nerepis is a Canadian rural community in Westfield Parish, Kings County, New Brunswick.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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New Brunswick Museum

The New Brunswick Museum, located in Saint John, New Brunswick, is Canada's oldest continuing museum.

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New Brunswick Railway Museum

The New Brunswick Railway Museum, owned and operated by the Canadian Railroad Historical Association, New Brunswick Division, is a museum located in Hillsborough, New Brunswick consisting of the railway's line last remaining steam engine.

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New Brunswick Route 1

Route 1 is a highway in the southern part of the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

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New Brunswick Route 106

Route 106 is a highway in New Brunswick, Canada; running from an intersection with Route 1 and the western terminus of Route 905 in Three Rivers to the intersection of Trans-Canada Highway (Route 2) and the southern terminus of Route 940 in Sackville; a distance of 91.8 kilometres.

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New Brunswick Route 2

Route 2 is a major provincial highway in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, carrying the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway in the province.

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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Nitrate

Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the chemical formula.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River is a river in the United States.

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Oxygen saturation

Oxygen saturation (symbol SO2) is a relative measure of the concentration of oxygen that is dissolved or carried in a given medium as a proportion of the maximal concentration that can be dissolved in that medium at the given temperature.

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Paleozoic

The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Peace of Utrecht

The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715.

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Pennsylvanian (geology)

The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, on the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods of the Carboniferous Period (or the upper of two subsystems of the Carboniferous System).

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Peter Fisher (historian)

Peter Fisher (9 June 1782 – 15 August 1848) was a historian and merchant in the British colony of New Brunswick.

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Petitcodiac River campaign

The Petitcodiac River campaign was a series of British military operations from June to November 1758, during the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War), to deport the Acadians that either lived along the Petitcodiac River or had taken refuge there from earlier deportation operations, such as the Ile Saint-Jean campaign.

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Petitcodiac, New Brunswick

Petitcodiac (sometimes shortened to) is a former village in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.

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PH

In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Phosphate

In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.

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Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons

Pierre Dugua de Mons (or Du Gua de Monts; – 1628) was a French merchant, explorer and colonizer.

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Plecoptera

Plecoptera is an order of insects, commonly known as stoneflies.

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Pointe-du-Chêne, New Brunswick

Pointe-du-Chêne is a community and former local service district in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.

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Polychlorinated biphenyl

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chemical compounds, formerly used in industrial and consumer products, whose production was banned in the United States by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1976 and internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

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Port-Royal (Acadia)

Port Royal (1605–1713) was a historic settlement based around the upper Annapolis Basin in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the predecessor of the modern town of Annapolis Royal.

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Port-Royal National Historic Site

Port-Royal National Historic Site is a National Historic Site located on the north bank of the Annapolis Basin in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Precambrian

The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.

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Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island (PEI;;; colloquially known as the Island) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Qiantang River

The Qiantang River, formerly known as the Hangchow River or Tsientang River, is a river in East China. Petitcodiac River and Qiantang River are tidal bores.

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Quaternary

The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands).

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Red beds

Red beds (or redbeds) are sedimentary rocks, typically consisting of sandstone, siltstone, and shale, that are predominantly red in color due to the presence of ferric oxides.

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Red knot

The red knot or just knot (Calidris canutus) is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia.

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Richard Philipps

General Richard Philipps (1661 – 14 October 1750) was said to have been in the employ of William III as a young man and for his service gained the rank of captain in the British army.

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Richibucto

Richibucto is a former town in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Riparian zone

A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.

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River surfing

River surfing is the sport of surfing either standing waves, tidal bores or upstream waves in rivers.

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Riverfront Trail, Greater Moncton

The Riverfront Trail is a multiuse trail in Greater Moncton, along the shores of the Petitcodiac River.

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Rupert River

The Rupert River is one of the largest rivers in Quebec, Canada. From its headwaters in Lake Mistassini, the largest natural lake in Quebec, it flows west into Rupert Bay on James Bay. The Rupert drains an area of sqmi. There is some extremely large whitewater on the river, but paddlers can avoid much of it by portage routes on the side.

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Sackville, New Brunswick

Sackville is a former town in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada.

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Saint Croix Island, Maine

Saint Croix Island (Île Sainte-Croix), long known to locals as Dochet Island, is a small uninhabited island in Maine near the mouth of the Saint Croix River that forms part of the Canada–United States border separating Maine from New Brunswick.

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Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)

The Saint John River (Fleuve Saint-Jean; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: Wolastoq) is a river flowing within the Dawnland region from headwaters in the Notre Dame Mountains near the Maine-Quebec border through western New Brunswick to the northwest shore of the Bay of Fundy. Petitcodiac River and Saint John River (Bay of Fundy) are rivers of New Brunswick.

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Saint John, New Brunswick

Saint John is a seaport city located on the Bay of Fundy in the province of New Brunswick, Canada.

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Salisbury, New Brunswick

Salisbury is a town located in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain (Fichier OrigineFor a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date nor his place of birth. – 25 December 1635) was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler.

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Sanderling

The sanderling (Calidris alba) is a small wading bird.

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.

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Scirpus pendulus

Scirpus pendulus is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names pendulous bulrush, rufous bulrush, and nodding bulrush.

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Semipalmated plover

The semipalmated plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) is a small plover.

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Semipalmated sandpiper

The semipalmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) is a very small shorebird.

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Sentinelles Petitcodiac Riverkeeper

Sentinelles Petitcodiac Riverkeeper (SPR) is a registered non-profit organization and Riverkeeper group established in Three Rivers, New Brunswick, Canada on 18 February, 1999.

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Seven Years' War

The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.

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Shediac

Shediac (official in both languages; Shédiac is colloquial French) is a heavily Acadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.

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Shepody Bay

Shepody Bay (Baie de Chipoudy) is a tidal embayment, an extension of the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick, Canada, which consists of of open water and of mudflats, with of saline marsh on the west, and eroding sand and gravel beaches covering an area of approximately on the eastern shore.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Short-billed dowitcher

The short-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), like its congener the long-billed dowitcher, is a medium-sized, stocky, long-billed shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.

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Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia

Shubenacadie is a village located in Hants County, in central Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Simulium

Simulium is a genus of black flies, which may transmit diseases such as onchocerciasis (river blindness).

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Sinkhole

A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.

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Sled dog

A sled dog is a dog trained and used to pull a land vehicle in harness, most commonly a sled over snow.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.

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Steeves

Steeves (also Steves) is a surname.

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Stephen Binney

Stephen Binney (March 24, 1805 – January 17, 1872) was a merchant, shipbuilder and political figure in Nova Scotia.

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Strait Shores

Strait Shores is a rural community in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

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Sunny Brae, New Brunswick

Sunny Brae is a neighbourhood in Moncton, New Brunswick.

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Tankville

Tankville is a neighbourhood in the city of Moncton.

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Tantramar Marshes

The Tantramar Marshes, also known as the Tintamarre National Wildlife Area, is a tidal saltmarsh around the Bay of Fundy on the Isthmus of Chignecto.

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Tanypodinae

Tanypodinae is a subfamily of midges in the non-biting midge family (Chironomidae).

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Telegraph-Journal

The Telegraph-Journal is a daily newspaper published in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, owned by Postmedia Network.

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The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE; L'Encyclopédie canadienne) is the national encyclopedia of Canada, published online by the Toronto-based historical organization Historica Canada, with the support of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage.

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Tidal bore

A tidal bore, often simply given as bore in context, is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay, reversing the direction of the river or bay's current. Petitcodiac River and tidal bore are river surfing and tidal bores.

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Tidal power

Tidal power or tidal energy is harnessed by converting energy from tides into useful forms of power, mainly electricity using various methods.

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Times & Transcript

The Times & Transcript is a newspaper from Moncton, New Brunswick.

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Tonne

The tonne (or; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.

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Topsoil

Topsoil is the upper layer of soil.

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Trans Canada Trail

The Trans Canada Trail, officially named The Great Trail between September 2016 and June 2021, is a cross-Canada system of greenways, waterways, and roadways that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic oceans.

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Treaty of Paris (1763)

The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, following Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petitcodiac_River

Also known as Petitcodiac River (New Brunswick), Petitcodiac River Causeway.

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