<P> Present - day New Brunswick became part of the colony of Nova Scotia . Hostilities ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763, and Acadians returning from exile discovered several thousand immigrants, mostly from New England, on their former lands . Some settled around Memramcook and along the Saint John River . </P> <P> Settlement was initially slow . Pennsylvanian immigrants founded Moncton in 1766 . An American settlement also developed at Saint John, and English settlers from Yorkshire arrived in the Sackville area . </P> <P> After the American Revolution, about 10,000 loyalist refugees settled along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy, commemorated in the province's motto, Spem reduxit ("hope restored"). In 1784 New Brunswick was partitioned from Nova Scotia, and that year saw its first elected assembly . The colony was named New Brunswick in honour of George III, King of Great Britain, King of Ireland, and prince - elector of the Electorate of Brunswick - Lüneburg in what is now Germany . In 1785 Saint John became Canada's first incorporated city . </P> <P> Although New Brunswick has limited arable land, the 1800s saw an age of prosperity based on wood export and shipbuilding, bolstered by The Canadian--American Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 and demand from the American Civil War . St. Martins became the third most productive shipbuilding town in the Maritimes, producing over 500 vessels . </P>

This is the bay that divides new brunswick and nova scotia