New Brunswick TNB. Other live theatre troops include the Théatre populaire d'Acadie in Caraquet, and Live Bait Theatre in Sackville. The refurbished Imperial and Capitol Theatres are found in Saint John and Moncton, respectively; the more modern Playhouse is located in Fredericton. New Brunswick has four daily newspapers: the "Times & Transcript", serving eastern New Brunswick, the "Telegraph-Journal", based in Saint John and distributed province-wide, "The Daily Gleaner", based in Fredericton, and "L'Acadie Nouvelle", based in Caraquet. The three English-language dailies and the majority of the weeklies are owned and operated by Brunswick News, privately owned by J. K. Irving. The Canadian
Demographics of New Brunswick Demographics of New Brunswick New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces, and the only officially bilingual province (French and English) in the country. The provincial Department of Finance estimates that the province's population in 2006 was 729,997 of which the majority is English-speaking but with a substantial (32%) French-speaking minority of mostly Acadian origin. First Nations in New Brunswick include the Mi'kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet). The first European settlers, the Acadians are descendants of French colonists of Acadia, a French colony in what is today Nova scotia. The Acadians were expelled by the British (1755) for refusing to