The Picture Province

A History of New Brunswick

De: Daniel Hardy

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A Sweeping HIstory of the Province of New Brunswik

New Brunswick is the most overlooked province in Canada — and one of the most extraordinary. It is the only officially bilingual province in the country, home to the oldest incorporated city in North America, the site of one of the most radical social revolutions in Canadian political history, and the birthplace of writers, musicians, and artists whose work belongs to the world. It has been shaped by glaciers and tides, by Acadian farmers who built their fields from the sea and then lost everything to a British deportation order, by Loyalist exiles who arrived with their grief and their ambitions and built a province in the wilderness. Its forests fed the British Empire. Its shipyards launched the fastest vessel on the planet. Its people have been leaving for generations, and somehow it endures.

In The Picture Province, Daniel Hardy tells the full story of New Brunswick — from the ancient rocks of the Fundy shore and the ten-thousand-year presence of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi'kmaq peoples, through the catastrophe of the Grand Dérangement and the turbulent politics of Confederation, to the equal opportunity revolution of Louis Robichaud, the long struggle for official bilingualism, the outsized shadow of the Irving industrial empire, and the unresolved questions of reconciliation, demographic survival, and environmental reckoning that define the province today.

Written with the authority of deep research and the pace of a story that never stops moving, The Picture Province is popular history at its best: clear-eyed about the past, honest about the present, and genuinely alive to the possibility that this small, complicated, beautiful province still has surprises left to offer.