Provincial Migration & Pull and Push Factors Of New Brunswick
As you watch the slide show on the right watch as the migration patterns in some areas grow and others shrink in size. More people are migrating to the Moncton area (East East South) because they are in the lowlands and their soil is very good for farming. Farming and farming land is a pull factor for New Brunswick and Moncton. People are migrating away from the Bathurst area (North North East) because they are in the highlands, and the soil in the highlands ate only able to support forest. Bad soil is a pushing factor for New Brunswick and all of the highlands. Farming is a big industry anywhere, but in New Brunswick where Moncton is the only place there is farming it is even bigger because that is where all of the locally grown foods come making it more expensive.
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In Moncton the ethnic origin is a very wide spread of different origins. In a 2006 census there was 29 different recorded origins in Moncton, the top five origins are, Other North American Origins, Canadian, British Isles Origin, French Origins and French. The 11th place in the origin list is Acadian, the Acadian's were the first to settle in Moncton, all of Moncton use to be Acadian origins however after the deportation in the 1800s only a few Acadians came back but it proves that the original origin that founded Moncton has not disappeared. Today 30% of the population in Moncton speaks French and English, compared to other places in Canada this is very bilingual. The only other places in Canada that are as bilingual as Moncton are Ottawa and Montreal. Click here to review the other ethnic origins.