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ID: 7013076
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013076
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Moncton (inhabited place)  Moncton (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 04 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 064 50 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -64.8333  decimal degrees

Note: Second largest city in New Brunswick; was inhabited by Micmac Amerindians; settled by French Acadians after 1698, Pennsylvania Germans 1763 & Empire Loyalists 1784; economic activity includes food processing, woodworking, lobster fishing & manufacturing.

Names:
Moncton (preferred,C,V,O)  ............ renamed after Lieutenant Colonel Robert Monckton 1855
The Bend (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Canada (nation)  ........  Canada (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of New Brunswick (province)  ............  New Brunswick (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Moncton (inhabited place)  ................  Moncton (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  originated as Micmac Indian village
city (C)
port (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Moncton..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 247
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -569498
.................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 127
The Bend..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 247
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 247
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -569498
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 127
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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