New Brunswick is bounded by the US to the west, Québec to the north and Nova Scotia to the south, providing the bridge from the Maritime provinces to the rest of Canada. The only province in Canada to have French as its first language, New Brunswick was first inhabited by the French explorers Samuel de Champlain and Charles de la Tour. Once the most prosperous province in Canada, it lost its wealth as the wooden sailing boats commissioned by the loyalists and the founders of the Cunard Line gave way to steam and steel.

These days New Brunswick is probably most famous for the awesome Bay of Fundy with it's enormous tides, its dunes stretching for miles and the salmon fishing. New Brunswick is also the place for whale watching - many whales live in the waters surrounding New Brunswick, including the right whale, one of the rarest whales in the world.

There are good connections via Halifax to Fredericton making it possible to have a splendid fly-drive holiday starting in New Brunswick and driving through to Nova Scotia, flying home from Halifax. A self-drive holiday will let you explore all the pretty inns of New Brunswick and its capital Saint John (not to be confused with St. John's, Newfoundland), the high tides of the Bay of Fundy and of course, the ever present and delicious sea food.