Edmundston
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| Motto : La ville six étoiles. (The six-star city.) | |||
| Location in New Brunswick | |||
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| Province : | New Brunswick | ||
| County: | Madawaska County | ||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 22 ′ N , 68 ° 19 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 264 m | ||
| Area : | 106.9 km² | ||
| Residents : | 16,032 (as of 2011) | ||
| Population density : | 150 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Atlantic Time ( UTC − 4 ) | ||
| Municipality number: | 506 | ||
| Postal code : | E3V, E7B | ||
| Foundation : | 1850 | ||
| Mayor : | Jacques P. Martin | ||
| Website : | edmundston.ca/fr | ||
Edmundston is a city in Madawaska County in New Brunswick , Canada . It is located in the northwest of the province at the confluence of the Saint John River and Madawaska River . The international border between Canada and the United States runs in the middle of the Saint John River; a bridge connects Edmundston with the opposite city of Madawaska in Maine .
The city has been the amalgamation of the municipalities of Edmundston, Saint-Basile, Saint-Jacques and Verret since 1952 and in 2006 had 16,643 inhabitants, 98% of whom speak French, the highest francophone proportion in the entire province. The city is surrounded by the rolling hills of the Appalachian Mountains, the Madawaska River flows through the city center and flows into the Saint John River in the south. Edmundston is located on the Trans-Canada Highway , which leads from Québec to the coast. The main livelihood of the region is the wood industry and the residents find employment in numerous sawmills, paper and pulp mills.
history
Edmundston was originally called Petit-Sault (Little Waterfalls), but was renamed Edmundston in 1850 after Sir Edmund Walker Head, Governor General of Canada (1854-1861).
The unclear borderline in this area was long disputed between what was then British North America and the United States and almost led to the Aroostook War in 1838/39. The conflict finally ended in 1842 with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in London without a shot. The Francophone so-called Brayon in the region lived on both sides of the border and wanted to found their own state, the Republic of Madawaska . The mayor of Edmundston still bears the title of President of the Republic of Madawaska and the Madawaska flag flies in front of the town hall.
Edmundston has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Edmundston since 1944 .
Town twinning
Edmundston's twin town is the French city of Parthenay .
sons and daughters of the town
- Suzie LeBlanc (* 1961), Canadian soprano
- Roch Voisine (* 1963), Canadian author, composer, musician and actor
- Cédrick Desjardins (* 1985), Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b English Wikipedia: Edmundston (New Brunswick)
- ^ City of Edmundston
- ↑ Parthenay: Comité de Jumelage ( Memento of the original of September 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
