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place to host those international events.”
The provincial government will invest
$120,000 through the Regional Develop-
ment Corporation, while the federal gov-
ernment, (through the Atlantic Canada Op-
portunities Agency) will provide $137,000
under the Community Infrastructure Im-
provement Fund. The City of Moncton and
the Université de Moncton are each contrib-
uting $80,174 towards the project.
“The Moncton Stadium has been a key
piece in making Moncton the sports and en-
tertainment capital of Atlantic Canada,” says
Moncton Mayor George LeBlanc. “These
infrastructure improvements will help us
continue to attract major national and inter-
national events to our region.”
WHAT A BORE!!
While hosting the World Cup puts Monc-
ton squarely on a platform of international
recognition in the sporting world with all
the economic possibilities that can pose, the
city has also garnered increasing fame among
another body of sporting enthusiasts, yet in
a manner that was neither intended nor ever
expected – with surfers!
To explain, the Petitcodiac River produc-
es one of North America’s few tidal bores, a
by-product of its waters interacting with ex-
treme tides emerging from the Bay of Fun-
dy which results in the creation of a large
wave that routinely sweeps up the river on
the leading edge of the incoming tide. The
bore can reach more than six feet in height
between one and two metres (3.2–6.4 ft) in
height and extend clear across the width of
the river as moves at speeds that can exceed
eight miles an hour. An early tourist attrac-
tion, it had vanished from the landscape
with the building of the Petitcodiac cause-
way the 1960s. As a further consequence,
the river channel silted to so reduce the bore
Surfers recently set a new World Record by
surfing Moncton’s famous tidal bore