Edmundston (2006 population: 16,643) is a Canadian city in Madawaska County, New Brunswick.
It is located at the edge of the New Brunswick "pan handle" at the junction of the Saint John and Madawaska Rivers in the northwestern part of the province.
Edmundston is strategically situated only a few kilometres from the border with Quebec and on the border with the United States, opposite the town of Madawaska, Maine, to which it is connected by the Edmundston-Madawaska Bridge.
The city is 98 per cent francophone, the highest of all cities in the province. Edmundston is also the largest majority-francophone city in North America outside Quebec with Clarence-Rockland, Ontario being second with 68 per cent francophones. There are higher numbers of francophones in other Canadian cities such as Ottawa (122,665), Sudbury (45,420), Toronto (34,900), Winnipeg (26,855), Moncton (20,425) and Timmins (17,390), but French speakers in these cities are a minority. (...)
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