NEW BRIGHTON 



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NEW BRUNSWICK 



New Brighton. Wutering-plaoe 

 of Ch' t of the county 



borough of Wallasey. It atanda on 

 the Mersey, 4 ra. from I'.iik'-nhead, 

 in the Wirral peninsula. It baa a 

 Muti"ii on tho Wirral l!l\.. and n 

 i-onntM'ted by ferry steamers with 

 l.i\. i |H>I)| ami I'.irkcnhead. There 

 ia a tin.- promenade and a park, 

 where nmusementa are provided. 

 See Wallasey. 



New Brighton. Part of New 

 York City, U.S.A. Formerly a 

 i-r|i.ir;ito town, on the N.E. shore 

 of Staten Island, it was incor- 

 porated with Richmond, one of the 

 New York boroughs, in 1898. See 

 New York City. 



New Brighton. Borough of 

 Pennsylvania, U.S.A., in Beaver 

 co. It stands on the Beaver river, 

 29 m. N.W. of Pittsburg, and 

 is served by the Pittsburg and 

 Lake Erie Rly. New Brighton was 

 organized as a town in 1815, and 

 incorporated in 1838. Pop. 9,400. 



New Britain OR NEW POMER- 

 A \ i \ . Island of the Bismarck Archi- 

 pelago (q.v. ). It is separated from 

 the E. coast of New Guinea or 

 Papua by Dampier Strait. Its 

 length is about 

 300 m., and its 

 breadth narrows 

 to 10 m. ; its 

 area is about 

 10,000 sq. m. The 

 coasts are low 

 and fertile, but 

 the interior is 

 mountainousand 

 Includes several 

 volcanoes, some 

 active. The high- 

 est point is the 

 Father, alt.7,500 



ft. Well wooded, and with rich 

 vegetation, it has a heavy rainfall 

 and a moist, warm climate. Its N. 

 projection, the Gazelle Peninsula, 

 is the best known part, and con- 

 tains the former German settlement 

 and port of Herbertshohe, renamed 

 Kokopo (q.v. ). There are numerous 

 plantations under rubber, coffee, 

 and cotton. The natives are Mela- 

 nesians, and the white settlers num- 

 ber about 300. It was occupied 

 by the British in 1914. The capital 

 is Rabaul. 



New Britain. City of Connecti- 

 cut, U.S.A., in Hartford co. It is 

 10 m. S.W. of Hartford, and is 

 served by the New York, New 

 Haven, and Hartford Rly. The 

 chief buildings are the state nor- 

 mal school and the R.C. cathedral. 

 New Britain is noted for hardware. 

 Settled in 1687, it was incorporated 

 in 1850, and became a city in 

 1871. Pop. 59,300. 



New Brunswick. Maritime 

 prov. of the Dominion of Canada. 

 It is bounded N.W. by the prov. of 



Quebec, W. by the U.S.A., and on 

 the other sides by the sea, except 

 where the narrow isthmus of 

 Chignecto separ- 

 ates it from Nova 

 Scotia. The sur- 

 face ia undulating, 

 the only flat re 



New Bruniwick 

 armi 



other crop* are rained, cattle are 

 reared, and there u some dairy 

 farming. Iron, coal, gyptmm, oil, 

 and other mineral* are mined, and 

 natural gas exist*. There is a 

 large fishing industry and ample 

 water power. The Intercolonial 

 Rly. serves the prov., and both the 

 gion lying along C.P.R. and the G.T.R. pans through 

 tho E. coast. In it. St. John is the largest t.\\ii, 

 others being Fredericton, the cap- 

 ital, and Moncton. 



The prov. ia represented in the 

 Dominion Parliament at Ottawa 

 by 10 senators and 1 1 members of 

 the House of Commons. For con- 

 trolling local affairs there is a par- 

 liament of one house, its 48 mem- 

 bers being elected for five years. 

 Responsible to this is a mini-try 

 under a premier, and the depart- 

 ments include those of education, 

 agriculture, land, etc. The towns 

 and rural districts have elected 

 bodies to manage their own affairs. 

 Until 1892, when the legislative 

 council was abolished, the parlia- 

 ment consisted of two houses. 



the N. are a num- 

 ber of low spurs of 

 the Appalachians. 

 Thedeeplyindent- 

 ed coast, which includes Chignecto 

 and Miramichi Bays and the estu- 

 ary of the St. John, has many 

 fine harbours. Grand Manan and 

 Campobello islands, both fishing 

 centres, lie off the coast. The 

 longest river is the St. John, others 

 being the Miramichi, Restigouche, 

 forming part of the N. boundary, 

 St. Croix, and Petitcodiac. Grand 

 Lake is the largest of the lakes. 



Much of New Brunswick is 

 covered by forests, in which moose 

 and caribou are found, and lumber- 

 ing and the making of wood-pulp 

 are important industries. The soil 

 is fertile ; wheat, oats, barley, and 



New Brunswick was settled by 

 the French in 1604. Settlers from 

 England and Scotland arrived 



New Brunswick. Map ol the Canadian maritime province Ijing between Quebec 

 aad Nova Scotia 



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