New Brunswick Book of Everything: Everything You Wanted to Know About New Brunswick and Were Going to Ask Anyway

by Martha Walls

From the number of kilometers of coastline, to the stories behind those weird place names (hello Skeedaddle Ridge) to profiles of Stompin’ Tom and Frank McKenna, no book is more comprehensive than the New Brunswick Book of Everything. No book is more fun.

Well-known New Brunswickers weigh in on a whole range of subjects – Arthur Doyle’s five most memorable New Brunswick political scandals; meteorologist Claude Cote tells us his five biggest New Brunswick weather stories, and David Ganong tells us his five favourite memories of growing up in New Brunswick. Stories of the First People, the worst weather, New Brunswick slang, the most infamous crimes . . . it’s all here!

Whether you are a life long resident or visiting for the first time, there simply is no other book that delivers the goods. If you love New Brunswick, you’ll love the New Brunswick Book of Everything.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[SusanwithaGoodBook]

Just like the other Books of Everything, this says this is written for natives, but this is the kind of thing I enjoy learning about places we visit. A concise bullet point list of important history dates, a list of interesting geographic features, a bit about language and culture, and a bit about everything. I particularly enjoy the history bits and the culture stuff.

[Jen Cameron]

Most intereating thing I learned: the actor that plays President Snow in the Hunger Games Movies, Donald Sutherland, is orignially from Saint John, NB.