New Brunswick is a popular tourist destination in Canada, most of its attractions being by the coast. Its national parks, salt water beaches, tidal bores, whale watching, water sports, historic towns and museums, and hiking trails and campgrounds bring tourists here all year round. Part of Canada’s Atlantic Provinces, that is, the Canadian provinces that are located on the Atlantic Coast, or Maritime Provinces, New Brunswick is Canada’s only bilingual province, with half its citizens being Anglophones and the other half being Francophones.