An Acadian city in the south-east of the Province of New Brunswick, Moncton is at the end of the narrow estuary of the Petitcodiac, one of the tips of the Bay of Fundy, famed for having the world's highest tides.
Often hailed as the capital of Acadia, Moncton is an important east Canadian road and rail junction, as well as having a French
-speaking university.
The French settled in the northern end of the Bay of Fundy in 1638, but the English destroyed their settlement a few years later and the inhabitants were abducted.
German settlers, previously from Pennsylvania, arrived here in the second half of the 18th C.
The east Canadian city owes its name to Robert Moncton, the British commander who took the nearby Fort Beauséjour in 1755.
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