Moncton (; ) is the most populous city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, it lies at the geographic centre of the Maritime Provinces. The city has earned the nickname "Hub City" because of its central inland location in the region and its history as a railway and land transportation hub for the Maritimes. As of the 2025 Statistics Canada estimates, the city had a population of 102,378, the first time that a New Brunswick city had a population of more than 100,000 people. The metropolitan population in 2025 was 196,143, making it one of the fastest growing census metropolitan areas (CMA) in Canada. Its land area is . Its economy is stable and diversified, primarily based on its traditional transportation, distribution, retailing, and commercial heritage, and supplemented by strength in the educational, health care, financial, information technology, and insurance sectors. The strength of Moncton's economy has received national recognition in part due to a local unemployment rate that is consistently lower than the national average.
History
Acadians settled the head of the Bay of Fundy in the 1670s. The first reference to the "Petcoucoyer River" was on the De Meulles map of 1686. Settlement of the Petitcodiac and Memramcook river valleys began about 1700, gradually extending inland and reaching the site of present-day Moncton in 1733. The first Acadian settlers in the Moncton area established a marshland farming community and chose to name their settlement Le Coude ("The Elbow"), an allusion to the 90° bend in the river near the site of the settlement.
thumb|left|[[Fort Beauséjour. In 1755, the French fort was captured by British forces under the command of Robert Monckton.]]
In 1755, nearby Fort Beauséjour was captured by British forces under the command of Lt. Col. Robert Monckton. The Beaubassin region including the Memramcook and Petitcodiac river valleys subsequently fell under English control. Later that year, Governor Charles Lawrence issued a decree ordering the expulsion of the Acadian population from Nova Scotia (including recently captured areas of Acadia such as Le Coude). This action came to be known as the "Great Upheaval".
The reaches of the upper Petitcodiac River valley then came under the control of the Philadelphia Land Company (one of the principals of which was Benjamin Franklin). In 1766, Pennsylvania German settlers arrived to reestablish the preexisting farming community at Le Coude. The Settlers consisted of eight families: Heinrich Stief (Steeves), Jacob Treitz (Trites), Matthias Sommer (Somers), Jacob Reicker (Ricker), Charles Jones (Schantz), George Wortmann (Wortman), Michael Lutz (Lutes), and George Koppel (Copple). There is a plaque dedicated in their honour at the mouth of Hall's Creek.
They renamed the settlement "The Bend". The prosperity engendered by the wooden shipbuilding industry allowed The Bend to incorporate as the town of Moncton in 1855. Although the town was named for Monckton, At about the time of the railway's arrival, the popularity of steam-powered ships forced an end to the era of wooden shipbuilding. The Salter shipyard closed in 1858. The resulting industrial collapse caused Moncton to surrender its civic charter in 1862.
thumb|The Canadian National Railway station in 1927, since replaced by a simpler [[Moncton station |modern structure]]
Moncton grew rapidly during the early 20th century, particularly after provincial lobbying helped the city become the eastern terminus of the massive National Transcontinental Railway project in 1912. In 1918, the federal government merged the ICR and the National Transcontinental Railway (NTR) into the newly formed Canadian National Railways (CNR) system. The T. Eaton Company's catalogue warehouse moved to the city in the early 1920s, employing over 700 people.
Transportation and distribution became increasingly important to Moncton's economy in the mid-20th century. The first scheduled air service out of Moncton was established in 1928. During the Second World War, the Canadian Army built a large military supply base in the city to service the Maritime military establishment. The CNR continued to dominate the economy of the city; railway employment in Moncton peaked at nearly 6,000 workers in the 1950s before beginning a slow decline.
thumb|upright=0.6|The Aliant tower symbolizes Moncton's position in Atlantic Canada as a communications and transportation hub.
Moncton was placed on the Trans-Canada Highway network in the early 1960s after Route 2 was built along the city's northern perimeter. Later, the Route 15 was built between the city and Shediac. At the same time, the Petitcodiac River Causeway was constructed. and became an important resource in the development of Acadian culture in the area.
The late 1970s and the 1980s were a period of economic hardship for the city as several major employers closed or restructured. The Eatons catalogue division, CNR's locomotive shops facility and CFB Moncton closed during this time, throwing thousands of citizens out of work.
The city diversified in the early 1990s with the rise of information technology, led by call centres that made use of the city's bilingual workforce. By the late 1990s, retail, manufacturing and service expansion began to occur in all sectors and within a decade of the closure of the CNR locomotive shops Moncton had more than made up for its employment losses. This dramatic turnaround in the city's fortunes has been termed the "Moncton Miracle".
The community's growth has accelerated since the 1990s. The confidence of the community has been bolstered by its ability to host major events such as the Francophonie Summit in 1999, a Rolling Stones concert in 2005, the Memorial Cup in 2006, and both the IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics and a neutral site regular season CFL football game in 2010.
Positive developments include the Atlantic Baptist University (later renamed Crandall University) achieving full university status and relocating to a new campus in 1996, the Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport opening a new terminal building and becoming a designated international airport in 2002, and the opening of the new Gunningsville Bridge to Riverview in 2005. In 2002, Moncton became Canada's first officially bilingual city. In the 2006 census, it was designated a Census Metropolitan Area and became New Brunswick's largest metropolitan area.
On 1 January 2023, Moncton annexed an area including Charles Lutes Road and Zack Road.
Geography
thumb|Moncton is located along the north bank of the [[Petitcodiac River, at a point where the river bends acutely from a west–east to north–south flow.]]
Moncton lies in southeastern New Brunswick, at the geographic centre of the Maritime Provinces. The city is along the north bank of the Petitcodiac River at a point where the river bends acutely from west−east to north−south flow. This geographical feature has contributed significantly to historical names for the community. Petitcodiac in the Mi'kmaq language has been translated as "bends like a bow". The early Acadian settlers in the region named their community Le Coude ("the elbow").
Tidal bore
thumb|Close-up of a [[tidal bore on the Petitcodiac River in Moncton. The River exhibits one of North America's few examples of a tidal bore.]]
The Petitcodiac River exhibits one of North America's few tidal bores: a regularly occurring wave that travels up the river on the leading edge of the incoming tide. The bore is a result of the Bay of Fundy's extreme tides. Originally, the bore was very impressive, sometimes between high and extending across the width of the Petitcodiac River in the Moncton area. This wave occurred twice a day at high tide, travelling at an average speed of and producing an audible roar.
The "bore" became a very popular early tourist attraction for the city, but when the Petitcodiac causeway was built in the 1960s, the river channel quickly silted in and reduced the bore so that it rarely exceeded in height. In April 2010, the causeway gates were opened in an effort to restore the silt-laden river.
Climate
Despite being less than from the Bay of Fundy and less than from the Northumberland Strait, the climate tends to be more continental than maritime during the summer and winter seasons, with maritime influences somewhat tempering the transitional seasons of spring and autumn.
thumb|Hoar frost on a chilly mid-winter morning in Moncton's Bore Park. The mean daily minimum in January is about .
Moncton has a warm summer humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb) with uniform precipitation distribution. Winter days are typically cold but sunny, with solar radiation generating some warmth. Daytime high temperatures usually range a few degrees below the freezing point. Major snowfalls can result from Nor'easter ocean storms moving up the east coast of North America.
These major snowfalls typically average 20–30 cm (8–12 in) and are frequently mixed with rain or freezing rain. Spring is often delayed because the sea ice that forms in the nearby Gulf of St. Lawrence during the winter requires time to melt, and this cools onshore winds, which can extend inland as far as Moncton. The ice burden in the gulf has diminished considerably over the last decade, and the springtime cooling effect has weakened as a result. Daytime temperatures above freezing are typical by late February. Trees are usually in full leaf by May.
Summers are warm, sometimes hot, and can be somewhat humid due to the seasonal prevailing westerly winds strengthening the climate's continental tendencies. The coldest ever recorded was on February 5, 1948.
| date = August 2010
|source 2= weatherstats.ca (for dewpoint and monthly&yearly average absolute maximum&minimum temperature)
Cityscape
thumb|The skyline of [[Downtown Moncton, with the Bell Aliant Tower to the right.]]
Moncton generally remains a "low rise" city, but its skyline encompasses buildings and structures with varying architectural styles from many periods. The city's most dominant structure is the Bell Aliant Tower, a microwave communications tower built in 1971. When it was constructed, it was the tallest microwave communications tower of its kind in North America. It remains the tallest structure in Atlantic Canada, dwarfing the neighbouring Place L'Assomption by .
Assumption Place is a 20-story office building and the headquarters of Assumption Mutual Life Insurance. This building is tall and tied with Brunswick Square (Saint John) as the tallest building in the province. The Blue Cross Centre is a nine-story building in Downtown Moncton. It is architecturally distinctive, encompasses a full city block, and is the city's largest office building by square footage. It is the home of Medavie Blue Cross and the Moncton Public Library. There are about a half dozen other buildings in Moncton between eight and 12 stories, including the Delta Beausejour and Brunswick Crowne Plaza Hotels and the Terminal Plaza office complex.
thumb|[[Centennial Park (Moncton)|Centennial Park is one of several public parks managed by the city.]]
Urban parks
The most popular park in the area is Centennial Park which has lighted cross country skiing and hiking trails, the city's largest playground, lawn bowling and tennis facilities, a boating pond, a treetop adventure course, and Rocky Stone Field, a city owned 2,500 seat football stadium with artificial turf, and home to the Moncton Minor Football Association. The city's other main parks are Mapleton Park in the city's north end, Irishtown Nature Park (one of the largest urban nature parks in Canada) and St. Anselme Park (located in Dieppe). There is an extensive system of hiking and biking trails in Metro Moncton. The Riverfront Trail is part of the Trans Canada Trail system, and various monuments and pavilions can be found along its length.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the City of Moncton had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Moncton's urban area (population centre) had a population of living in an area of . Residents lived in 51,830 dwellings out of the 54,519 total private dwellings. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Moncton's urban area is the third largest in Atlantic Canada, after Halifax, Nova Scotia, and St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the second largest in The Maritimes.
In 2016, the median age in Moncton was 41.4, close to the national median age of 41.2.
The 2021 census reported that immigrants (individuals born outside Canada) comprise 8,460 persons or 10.9% of the total population of Moncton. Of the total immigrant population, the top countries of origin were Philippines (795 persons or 9.4%), India (655 persons or 7.7%), United States of America (555 persons or 6.6%), China (475 persons or 5.6%), Nigeria (470 persons or 5.6%), United Kingdom (395 persons or 4.7%), Syria (385 persons or 4.6%), South Korea (380 persons or 4.5%), France (290 persons or 3.4%), and Democratic Republic of the Congo (270 persons or 3.2%).
! colspan="2" |2016
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!Population (human biology)|
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!
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| European
| 63,780
|
| 63,130
|
| 62,730
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| 60,575
|
| 58,450
|
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| African
| 4,075
|
| 1,830
|
| 1,180
|
| 710
|
| 555
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| South Asian
| 2,310
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| 330
|
| 490
|
| 265
|
| 145
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| Indigenous
| 2,080
|
| 1,795
|
| 1,415
|
| 640
|
| 470
|
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| Southeast Asian
| 1,595
|
| 665
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| 505
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| 115
|
| 95
|
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| East Asian
| 1,300
|
| 1,085
|
| 690
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| 275
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| 215
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| Middle Eastern
| 1,260
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| 950
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| 270
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| 185
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| 65
|
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| Latin American
| 565
|
| 195
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| 85
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| 55
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| 25
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| Other/multiracial
| 440
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| 135
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| 85
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| 150
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| 65
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! 77,405
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! 70,115
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! 67,450
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! 62,965
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! 60,080
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! Total population
! 79,470
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! 71,889
!
! 69,074
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! 64,128
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! 61,046
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Language
thumb|A sign at the entrance of Moncton. Both [[Canadian English|English and French, the two most spoken languages in the city, are used on the sign.]]
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| 45,765
| 4.68%
| 58.52%
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| 21,375
| 0.95%
| 27.33%
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| 2,230
| 79.12%
| 2.85%
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| 8,470
| 51.36%
| 10.83%
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| 43,720
| 1.60%
| 61.87%
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| 21,580
| 1.43%
| 30.54%
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| 1,245
| 15.81%
| 1.76%
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| 4,120
| 61.57%
| 5.83%
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|
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| 43,030
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| 63.34%
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| 21,275
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| 31.32%
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| 1,075
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| 1.58%
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| 2,550
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| 3.75%
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Moncton is a bilingual city, 58.5% of its residents having English as their mother tongue, while 27.3% have French, 2.9% learned both English and French as a first language, and 10.8% speak another language as their mother tongue. the only other Canadian cities that approach this level of linguistic duality are Ottawa, Sudbury, and Montreal. Moncton became the first officially bilingual city in the country in 2002. This means that all municipal services, as well as public notices and information, are available in both French and English.
Common non-official languages spoken as mother tongues are Arabic (1.4%), Punjabi (0.7%), Chinese (0.7%), Tagalog (0.6%), Korean (0.6%), Spanish (0.6%), Vietnamese (0.5%), and Portuguese (0.5%). 1.2% of residents listed both English and a non-official language as mother tongues, while 0.4% listed both French and a non-official language.
Religion
In the 2021 census, religious groups in Moncton included:
- Christianity (45,645 persons or 59.0%)
- Irreligion (26,615 persons or 34.4%)
- Islam (2,485 persons or 3.2%)
- Hinduism (995 persons or 1.3%)
- Sikhism (605 persons or 0.8%)
- Judaism (205 persons or 0.3%)
- Buddhism (180 persons or 0.2%)
- Indigenous Spirituality (10 persons or <0.1%)
- Other (660 persons or 0.9%)
Economy
thumb|The Blue Cross Centre is the headquarters for [[Medavie Blue Cross. A number of headquarters are located in Moncton.]]
The underpinnings of the local economy are based on Moncton's heritage as a commercial, distribution, transportation, and retailing centre. This is due to Moncton's central location in the Maritimes: it has the largest catchment area in Atlantic Canada with 1.6 million people living within a three-hour drive of the city. The insurance, information technology, educational, and health care sectors also are major factors in the local economy with the city's two hospitals alone employing over five thousand people, along with a growing high tech sector that includes companies such as Nanoptix, International Game Technology, OAO Technology Solutions, BMM Test Labs, TrustMe, and BelTek Systems Design.
Moncton has garnered national attention because of the strength of its economy. The local unemployment rate averages around 6%, which is below the national average. In 2004 Canadian Business magazine named it "The best city for business in Canada", and in 2007 FDi magazine named it the fifth most business-friendly small-sized city in North America.
Moncton's high proportion of bilingual workers and its status as border-city between majority francophone and majority anglophone areas makes it an attractive centre for both federal employment and the stationing of call-centres for Canadian companies (who provide services in both languages). The city is home to the regional head offices for several Canadian federal agencies such as Correctional Service Canada, Transport Canada, the Gulf Fisheries Centre and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. There are 37 call centres in the city which employ over 5,000 people. Some of the larger centres include Asurion, Numeris, ExxonMobil, Royal Bank of Canada, Tangerine Bank, UPS, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Rogers Communications and Nordia Inc.
thumb|Downtown Moncton acts as the central business district for the city. It houses a number of government and financial offices.
250px|thumb|[[Magnetic Hill (Moncton)|Magnetic Hill water park]]
A number of nationally or regionally prominent corporations have their head offices in Moncton including Atlantic Lottery Corporation, Assumption Life Insurance, Medavie Blue Cross Insurance, Armour Transportation Systems and Major Drilling Group International. TD Bank announced in 2018 a new banking services centre to be located in Moncton which will employ over 1,000 people (including a previously announced customer contact centre).
Several arms of the Irving corporation have their head offices and/or major operations in greater Moncton. These include Midland Transport, Majesta/Royale Tissues, Irving Personal Care, Master Packaging, Brunswick News, and Cavendish Farms. Kent Building Supplies (an Irving subsidiary) opened their main distribution centre in the Caledonia Industrial Park in 2014. The Irving group of companies employs several thousand people in the Moncton region.
There are three large industrial parks in the metropolitan area. The Irving operations are concentrated in the Dieppe Industrial Park. The Moncton Industrial Park in the city's west end has been expanded. Molson Coors opened a brewery in the Caledonia Industrial Park in 2007, its first new brewery in over fifty years. All three industrial parks also have large concentrations of warehousing and regional trucking facilities.
A new four-lane Gunningsville Bridge was opened in 2005, connecting downtown Riverview directly with downtown Moncton. On the Moncton side, the bridge connects with an extension of Vaughan Harvey Boulevard as well as to Assumption Boulevard and will serve as a catalyst for economic growth in the downtown area. This has become already evident as an expansion to the Blue Cross Centre was completed in 2006 and a Marriott Residence Inn opened in 2008. The new regional law courts on Assumption Blvd opened in 2011. A new 8,800 seat downtown arena (the Avenir Centre) recently opened in September 2018. On the Riverview side, the Gunningsville Bridge now connects to a new ring road around the town and is expected to serve as a catalyst for development in east Riverview.
Tourism is an important industry in Moncton and historically owes its origins to the presence of two natural attractions, the tidal bore of the Petitcodiac River (see above) and the optical illusion of Magnetic Hill. The tidal bore was the first phenomenon to become an attraction but the construction of the Petitcodiac causeway in the 1960s effectively extirpated the attraction. The theatre hosts a performing arts series and provides a venue for various theatrical performances as well as Symphony New Brunswick and the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada. Théâtre l'Escaouette is a Francophone live theatre company which has its own auditorium and performance space on Botsford Street. The Anglophone Live Bait Theatre is based in the nearby university town of Sackville. There are several private dance and music academies in the metropolitan area, including the Capitol Theatre's own performing arts school.
thumb|upright|left|[[Aberdeen Cultural Centre is an Acadian cultural cooperative containing multiple studios and galleries.]]
The Aberdeen Cultural Centre is a major Acadian cultural cooperative containing multiple studios and galleries. Among other tenants, the centre houses the Galerie Sans Nom, the principal private art gallery in the city.
The city's two main museums are the Moncton Museum at Resurgo Place on Mountain Road and the Musée acadien at Université de Moncton. The Moncton Museum reopened following major renovations and an expansion to include the Transportation Discovery Centre. The Discovery Centre includes many hands on exhibits highlighting the city's transportation heritage. The city also has several recognized historical sites. The Free Meeting House was built in 1821 and is a New England–style meeting house located adjacent to the Moncton Museum.
The Thomas Williams House, a former home of a city industrialist built in 1883, is now maintained in period style and serves as a genealogical research centre and is also home to several multicultural organizations. It is the only surviving building from the Pennsylvania Dutch era and is the oldest surviving building in the province of New Brunswick.
thumb|The Treitz Haus in Moncton, New Brunswick
In film production, the city has since 1974 been home to the National Film Board of Canada's French-language Studio Acadie.
Moncton is home to the Frye Festival, an annual bilingual literary celebration held in honour of world-renowned literary critic and favourite son Northrop Frye. This event attracts noted writers and poets from around the world and takes place in the month of April.
The Atlantic Nationals Automotive Extravaganza, held each July, is the largest annual gathering of classic cars in Canada. Other notable events include The Atlantic Seafood Festival in August, The HubCap Comedy Festival, and the World Wine Festival, both held in the spring.
Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral is the location of an interpretation centre, Monument for Recognition in the 21st century (MR21).
Sports
Facilities
thumb|The [[Moncton Sports Dome is an indoor air-supported building used for a number of different sports and recreational activities.]]
The Avenir Centre is an 8,800-seat arena which serves as a venue for major concerts and sporting events and is the home of the Moncton Wildcats of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League and the Moncton Magic of the National Basketball League of Canada. The CN Sportplex is a major recreational facility which has been built on the former CN Shops property. It includes ten ballfields, six soccer fields, an indoor rink complex with four ice surfaces (the Superior Propane Centre) and the Hollis Wealth Sports Dome, an indoor air supported multi-use building. The Sports Dome is large enough to allow for year-round football, soccer and golf activities. A newly constructed YMCA near the CN Sportsplex has extensive cardio and weight training facilities, as well as three indoor pools. The CEPS at Université de Moncton contains an indoor track and a swimming pool with diving towers. The new Moncton Stadium, also located at the U de M campus was built for the 2010 IAAF World Junior Track & Field Championships. It has a permanent seating for 10,000, but is expandable to a capacity of over 20,000 for events such as professional Canadian football. The only velodrome in Atlantic Canada is in Dieppe. It has since been closed after 17 years of existence due to safety concerns in May 2018. The metro area has a total of 12 indoor hockey rinks and one curling club, Curl Moncton. Other public sporting and recreational facilities are scattered throughout the metropolitan area, including a new $18 million aquatic centre in Dieppe opened in 2009.
Sports teams
The Moncton Wildcats play major junior hockey in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). They won the President's Cup, the QMJHL championship in both 2006 and 2010. Historically there has been a longstanding presence of a Moncton-based team in the Maritime Junior A Hockey League, but the Dieppe Commandos (formerly known as the Moncton Beavers) relocated to Edmundston at the end of the 2017 season. Historically, Moncton also was home to a professional American Hockey League franchise from 1978 to 1994. The New Brunswick Hawks won the AHL Calder Cup by defeating the Binghamton Whalers in 1981–1982. The Moncton Mets played baseball in the New Brunswick Senior Baseball League and won the Canadian Senior Baseball Championship in 2006. In 2015, the Moncton Fisher Cats began play in the New Brunswick Senior Baseball League. They were formed by a merger between the Moncton Mets and the Hub City Brewers of the NBSBL. In 2011, the Moncton Miracles began play as one of the seven charter franchises of the professional National Basketball League of Canada. The franchise failed at the end of the 2016/17 season, to be immediately replaced by a new NBL franchise, the Moncton Magic, who played their inaugural season in 2017/18. The Universite de Moncton has a number of active U Sports programs, while Crandall University has a number of active Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association programs.
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|+
! Club || Sport || League || Venue || Established || Championships
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| Tri City Tides || Basketball || TBL || Crandall University || 2024 ||
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| Moncton Wildcats || Ice hockey || QMJHL || Avenir Centre || 1996 || 2 – President's Cup (QMJHL)
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| Moncton Metropolitans || Baseball || NBSBL || Kiwanis Park || 2015 || 2 – NBSBL Championship (2017, 2019)
|-
| Moncton Mustangs || Football || MFL || Rocky Stone Field || 2004 || 5 – Maritime Bowl
|-
|Moncton Mystics
|Women's Basketball
|MWBA
|Crandall University
|2023
|
|-
| U de M Aigles Bleus || Athletics (M/F) <br /> Cross Country Running (M/F) <br /> Ice hockey (M/F) <br /> Soccer (M/F) <br /> Volleyball (F) || AUS || Aréna Jean-Louis-Lévesque <br /> U de M CEPS <br /> Stade Moncton Stadium || 1964 || Men's Hockey – 11 (AUS), 4 (U Sports) <br /> Women's Volleyball – 6 (AUS) <br /> Men's Athletics – 6 (AUS) <br /> Women's Hockey – 3 (AUS) <br /> Women's Athletics – 2 (AUS)
|-
| Crandall Chargers || Basketball (M/F) <br /> Boxing (M/F) <br /> Cross Country Running (M/F) <br /> Soccer (M/F) <br /> Volleyball (M/F) || ACAA || Various Campus Facilities || 1949 || Men's Cross Country – 5 (ACAA) <br /> Women's Cross Country – 2 (ACAA) <br /> Women's Soccer – 1 (ACAA)
|}
Major events
thumb|[[Moncton Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium that has hosted a number of events, including several games in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.]]
Moncton has hosted many large entertainment and sporting events. The 2006 Memorial Cup was held in Moncton with the hometown Moncton Wildcats losing in the championship final to rival Quebec Remparts. Moncton hosted the Canadian Interuniversity Sports (CIS) Men's University Hockey Championship in 2007 and 2008. The World Men's Curling Championship was held in Moncton in 2009; the second time this event has taken place in the city.
thumb|left|[[Bruce Springsteen and Tom Cochrane performing in Moncton, 2012]]
Moncton also hosted the 2010 IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics. This was the largest sporting event ever held in Atlantic Canada, with athletes from over 170 countries in attendance. The new 10,000-seat capacity Moncton Stadium was built for this event on the Université de Moncton campus. The construction of this new stadium led directly to Moncton being awarded a regular season neutral site CFL game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Edmonton Eskimos, which was held on September 26, 2010. This was the first neutral site regular season game in the history of the Canadian Football League and was played before a capacity crowd of 20,750. Additional CFL regular season games were held in 2011 and 2013, and again on August 25, 2019.
Moncton was one of only six Canadian cities chosen to host the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Major sporting events hosted by Moncton include:
- 1968 Canadian Junior Baseball Championships
- 1974 Canadian Figure Skating Championships
- 1975 Macdonald Lassies Championship
- 1975 Intercontinental Cup (baseball, co-hosted with Montreal)
- 1977 Skate Canada International
- 1978 CIS University Cup (hockey)
- 1980 World Men's Curling Championships
- 1982 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
- 1982 CIS University Cup
- 1983 CIS University Cup
- 1984 Canadian Men's and Women's Broomball Championships
- 1985 Canadian Figure Skating Championships
- 1985 Labatt Brier (curling)
- 1992 Canadian Figure Skating Championships
- 1997 World Junior Baseball Championships
- 2000 Canadian Junior Curling Championships
- 2004 Canadian Senior Baseball Championships
- 2006 Memorial Cup (hockey)
- 2007 CIS University Cup
- 2008 CIS University Cup
- 2009 World Men's Curling Championship
- 2009 Fred Page Cup (hockey)
- 2010 IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics
- 2010 CFL regular season neutral site game (Toronto and Edmonton)
- 2011 CFL regular season neutral site game (Hamilton and Calgary)
- 2012 Canadian Figure Skating Championships
- 2013 Canadian Track & Field Championships
- 2013 Football Canada Cup (national U18 football championship)
- 2013 CFL regular season neutral site game (Hamilton & Montreal)
- 2014 Canadian Track & Field Championships
- 2014 FIFA U20 Women's World Cup
- 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
- 2017 Canadian U18 Curling Championships
- 2019 CFL regular season neutral site game (Toronto and Montreal)
- 2023 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (Co-hosted with Halifax)
- 2024 Canadian Senior Curling Championships
Government
thumb|[[Moncton City Hall is the seat of municipal government.]]
The municipal government consists of a mayor and ten city councillors elected to four-year terms of office. The council is non-partisan with the mayor serving as the chairman, casting a ballot only in cases of a tie vote. There are four wards electing two councillors each with an additional two councillors selected at large by the general electorate. Day-to-day operation of the city is under the control of a City Manager.
Moncton is in the federal riding of Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe. Portions of Dieppe are in the federal riding of Beauséjour, and portions of Riverview are in the riding of Fundy Royal. In the current federal parliament, two MPs from the metropolitan area belong to the Liberal Party and one to the Conservative Party.
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|+Moncton federal election results
! colspan="2" scope="col" | Year
! colspan="2" scope="col" | Liberal
! colspan="2" scope="col" | Conservative
! colspan="2" scope="col" | New Democratic
! colspan="2" scope="col" | Green
|-
| rowspan="2" style="width: 0.25em; background-color: |
! 2021
| | 48%
| style="text-align:right; background:#EA6D6A;"| 16,670
| | 24%
| style="text-align:right; background:#6495ED;"| 8.266
| | 17%
| style="text-align:right; background:#F4A460;"| 5,974
| | 4%
| style="text-align:right; background:#99C955;"| 1,538
|-
! 2019
| | 42%
| style="text-align:right; background:#EA6D6A;"| 16,621
| | 24%
| style="text-align:right; background:#6495ED;"| 9,369
| | 12%
| style="text-align:right; background:#F4A460;"| 4,812
| | 18%
| style="text-align:right; background:#99C955;"| 7,027
|-
|}
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|+Moncton provincial election results
! colspan="2" scope="col" | Year
! colspan="2" scope="col" | PC
! colspan="2" scope="col" | Liberal
! colspan="2" scope="col" | Green
! colspan="2" scope="col" | People's Allnc.
|-
| style="width: 0.25em; background-color: |
! 2020
| | 43%
| style="text-align:right; background:#9999FF;"| 13,210
| | 33%
| style="text-align:right; background:#EA6D6A;"| 10,105
| | 16%
| style="text-align:right; background:#99C955;"| 5,112
| | 6%
| style="text-align:right; background:#AA99CC;"| 1,720
|-
| style="width: 0.25em; background-color: |
! 2018
| | 32%
| style="text-align:right; background:#9999FF;"| 9,983
| | 44%
| style="text-align:right; background:#EA6D6A;"| 13,600
| | 10%
| style="text-align:right; background:#99C955;"| 3,064
| | 3%
| style="text-align:right; background:#AA99CC;"| 1,034
|-
|}
Military
Moncton had a significant military presence from 1940 until the early 1990s.thumb|The southwestern portion of the former [[CFB Moncton base continues to be used by the Canadian Forces, known as Moncton Garrison.]]
Until the beginning of the Second World War, Moncton's main military presence was locally formed militia units. In 1940, a large military supply base (later known as CFB Moncton) was constructed on a railway spur line north of downtown next to the CNR shops. This base served as the main supply depot for the large wartime military establishment in the Maritimes. In addition, two British Commonwealth Air Training Plan bases were also built in the Moncton area during the war: No. 8 Service Flying Training School, RCAF, and No. 31 Personnel Depot, RAF. The RCAF also operated No. 5 Supply Depot in Moncton. The northern portion of the former base property has been turned over to the Canada Lands Corporation and is slowly being redeveloped. The southern part of the former base remains an active DND property and is now termed the Moncton Garrison. It is affiliated with CFB Gagetown. and is affiliated with Dalhousie University Medical School. It is home to the Northumberland family medicine residency training program and is a site for third and fourth year clinical training for medical students in the Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick Training Program. The hospital hosts UNB degree programs in nursing and medical x-ray technology and professional internships in fields such as dietetics. Specialized medical services at the hospital include neurosurgery, peripheral and neuro-interventional radiology, vascular surgery, thoracic surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, orthopedics, trauma, burn unit, medical oncology, neonatal intensive care, and adolescent psychiatry. A$48 million expansion to the hospital was completed in 2009 and contains a new laboratory, ambulatory care centre, and provincial level one trauma centre. A new oncology clinic was built at the hospital and opened in late 2014. The Moncton Hospital is managed by Horizon Health Network (formerly the South East Regional Health Authority).
left|thumb|The [[Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre was established in 1922.]]
The Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre has about 302 beds and hosts a medical training program through the local CFMNB and distant Medical School. There are also degree programs in nursing, medical x-ray technology, medical laboratory technology and inhalotherapy which are administered by Université de Moncton. Specialized medical services include medical oncology, radiation oncology, orthopedics, vascular surgery, and nephrology.
A cardiac cath lab is being studied for the hospital and a new PET/CT scanner has been installed. A$75 million expansion for ambulatory care, expanded surgery suites, and medical training is currently under construction. The hospital is also the location of the Atlantic Cancer Research Institute. This hospital is managed by francophone Vitalité Health Network.
Transportation
Air
thumb|Erickson Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane is lodged Moncton, where the [[Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport serves as the international airport for the metropolitan area.]]
Moncton is served by the Greater Moncton Roméo LeBlanc International Airport (YQM). It was renamed for former Canadian Governor General (and native son) Roméo LeBlanc in 2016. A new airport terminal with an international arrivals area was opened in 2002 by Queen Elizabeth II. The GMIA handles about 677,000 passengers per year, making it the second busiest airport in the Maritimes in terms of passenger volume. The GMIA is the 10th busiest airport in Canada in terms of freight. FedEx, UPS, and Purolator all have their Atlantic Canadian air cargo bases at the facility. The GMIA is the home of the Moncton Flight College; the largest pilot training institution in Canada, and is also the base for the regional RCMP air service, the New Brunswick Air Ambulance Service and the regional Transport Canada hangar and depot.
There is a private aerodrome in the north of the city, McEwen Airfield (CCG4), used for general aviation.
The Moncton Area Control Centre is one of only seven regional air traffic control centres in Canada. This centre monitors over 430,000 flights a year, 80% of which are either entering or leaving North American airspace. Wheeler Boulevard (Route 15) serves as an internal ring road, extending from the Petitcodiac River Causeway to Dieppe before exiting the city and heading for Shediac. Inside the city it is an expressway bounded at either end by traffic circles.
Maritime Bus provides intercity service to the region. Moncton is the largest hub in the system. All other major centres in New Brunswick, as well as Charlottetown, Halifax, and Truro are served out of the Moncton terminal.
Railways
thumb|left|Double-stacked freight passing through Moncton
Freight rail transportation in Moncton is provided by Canadian National Railway. Although the presence of the CNR in Moncton has diminished greatly since the 1970s, the railway still maintains a large classification yard and intermodal facility in the west end of the city, and the regional headquarters for Atlantic Canada is still located here as well. Passenger rail transportation is provided by Via Rail Canada, with their train the Ocean serving the Moncton railway station three days per week to Halifax and to Montreal, Quebec. The downtown Via station has been refurbished and also serves as the terminal for the Maritime Bus intercity bus service.
Education
thumb|[[École L'Odyssée is one of six publicly funded secondary schools in the city.]]
The South School Board administers 10 Francophone schools, including high schools École Mathieu-Martin and École L'Odyssée. The East School Board administers 25 Anglophone schools including Moncton, Harrison Trimble, Bernice MacNaughton, and Riverview high schools.
thumb|The [[Université de Moncton is a French-language university, and the only publicly funded university whose main campus is located in Moncton.]]
Post secondary education in Moncton:
- The Université de Moncton is a publicly funded provincial comprehensive university and is the largest francophone Canadian university outside of Quebec.
- Crandall University is a private Baptist Christian liberal arts university.
- The University of New Brunswick has a satellite health sciences campus in Moncton offering degree in nursing.
- The Moncton campus of the New Brunswick Community College has 1,600 full-time students and also hundreds of part-time students.
- The Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick offers training in trades and technologies.
- Medavie HealthEd, a subsidiary of Medavie Health Services, is a Canadian Medical Association-accredited school providing training in primary and advanced care paramedicine, as well as the Advanced Emergent Care (AEC) program of the Department of National Defence (Canada).
- Eastern College offers programs in the areas of business and administration, art and design, health care, social sciences & justice, tourism & hospitality, and trades.
- Moncton Flight College is one of Canada's oldest and largest flight schools.
- McKenzie College specializes in graphic design, digital media, and animation.
- The private Oulton College provides training in nursing, business, paramedical, dental sciences, pharmacy, veterinary, youth care and paralegal programs.
Media
thumb|upright|The [[Times & Transcript building is located in Downtown Moncton. It is the highest daily circulated newspaper in New Brunswick.]]
Moncton's daily newspaper is the Times & Transcript, which has the highest circulation of any daily newspaper in New Brunswick. More than 60 percent of city households subscribe daily, and more than 90 percent of Moncton residents read the Times & Transcript at least once a week. The city's other publications include L'Acadie Nouvelle, a French newspaper published in Caraquet in northern New Brunswick.
There are 17 broadcast radio stations in the city covering a variety of genres and interests, all on the FM dial or online streaming. Eleven of these stations are English and six are French.
Rogers Cable has its provincial headquarters and main production facilities in Moncton and broadcasts on two community channels, Cable 9 in French and Cable 10 in English. The French-language arm of the CBC, Radio-Canada, maintains its Atlantic Canadian headquarters in Moncton. There are three other broadcast television stations in Moncton and these represent all of the major national networks.
Notable people
Moncton has been the home of a number of notable people, including National Hockey League Hall of Famer and NHL scoring champion Gordie Drillon, World and Olympic champion curler Russ Howard, distinguished literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye, former Governor General of Canada Roméo LeBlanc, and former Supreme Court Justice Ivan Cleveland Rand, developer of the Rand Formula and Canada's representative on the UNSCOP commission.
Trudy Mackay FRS, renowned quantitative geneticist, member of the Royal Society and National Academy of Sciences, and recipient of the prestigious Wolf Prize for agriculture (2016), was born in Moncton. Robb Wells, the actor who plays Ricky on the Showcase comedy Trailer Park Boys hails from Moncton, along with Julie Doiron, an indie rock musician, and Holly Dignard the actress who plays Nicole Miller on the CTV series Whistler. Harry Currie, noted Canadian conductor, musician, educator, journalist and author was born in Moncton and graduated from MHS. Antonine Maillet, a francophone author, recipient of the Order of Canada and the "Prix Goncourt", the highest honour in francophone literature, is also from Moncton.
France Daigle, another acclaimed Acadian novelist and playwright, was born and resides in Moncton, and is noted for her pioneering use of chiac in Acadian literature, was the recipient of the 2012 Governor General's Literary Prize in French Fiction, for her novel (translated into English as "For Sure"). Canadian hockey star Sidney Crosby graduated from Harrison Trimble High School in Moncton.
Sonja Lang, the polyglot and translator who created Toki Pona, was born here.
Sister cities
- Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
- North Bay, Ontario, Canada
See also
- Coat of arms of Moncton
- Dieppe
- List of mayors of Moncton
- List of municipalities in New Brunswick
- List of neighbourhoods in Moncton
- Petitcodiac River
- Ridings History of Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview
- Riverview