Stickney, New Brunswick Stickney, New Brunswick Stickney is a community in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Stickney is located in northwest New Brunswick, on the north side of the Saint John River, about 1 hours from the provincial capital, Fredericton. Stickney is located about 8 minutes from Florenceville-Bristol. Also located in Stickney is the Stickney & Area Recreation Center. The many volunteers at the Stickney & Area Recreation Center work very hard on behalf of their community. Each summer and winter they host annual festivals, the summer one known as Stickney Days. Stickney also has an active Senior's club called "Stickney 50+
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