Citizenship Test Prep for New Brunswick

What Discover Canada says about New Brunswick

Discover Canada places New Brunswick in the Atlantic region. It says the province lies in the Appalachian Range, was founded by the United Empire Loyalists, and has the St. John River system, the second largest river system on North America's Atlantic coastline. The guide names forestry, agriculture, fisheries, mining, food processing and tourism as the main industries. It describes Saint John as a port and manufacturing centre, Moncton as the main Francophone Acadian centre and Fredericton as the historic capital. The guide states that New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province, and that about one third of its population lives and works in French. Street festivals and traditional music keep its Loyalist and French heritage alive. Elsewhere, the guide explains that the Acadians are descendants of French colonists who began settling in the Maritime provinces in 1604, and that between 1755 and 1763 more than two thirds of them were deported, an event it calls the Great Upheaval. It also lists New Brunswick among the colonies that worked toward Confederation from 1864 to 1867.

Language proof in New Brunswick

IRCC lists no provincial language program for New Brunswick, so the national options apply, the same as everywhere in Canada: a diploma, transcript or certificate from a secondary or post-secondary program taught in English or French, results from a language test that IRCC accepts, or LINC or CLIC training at Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) level 4 or higher in speaking and listening (certificate for training from November 1, 2012; for training from January 2008 to October 2012, you mark the box on the application). IRCC asks for CLB level 4 or higher in English or French for applicants aged 18 to 54.

Sample New Brunswick questions

Three questions from the app’s question bank for this province or territory.

1. New Brunswick is the only province in Canada that is officially bilingual in English and French.

   • True
   • False
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   Answer: True

2. New Brunswick's development as a separate colony was significantly shaped by the arrival of which group after the American Revolution?

   • Scottish crofters
   • Acadian settlers
   • Irish famine migrants
   • United Empire Loyalists
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   Answer: United Empire Loyalists

3. Which body of water separates New Brunswick from Prince Edward Island?

   • The Bay of Fundy
   • The Northumberland Strait
   • The Strait of Belle Isle
   • The Cabot Strait
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   Answer: The Northumberland Strait