Sussex, New Brunswick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sussex (2006 population: 4,241) is a town in , . Sussex straddles the , 70 km northeast of , is a major dairy products producer in the province, and is home to Atlantic Canada's largest hot air balloon festival. In the early 1960s, several local roads were upgraded as part of the project which saw pass immediately north of the town between and . At the same time, a series of local roads in the Kennebecasis River valley were designated as , running from an interchange with the Trans-Canada at Sussex, southwest to . The creation of Sussex as a highway interchange in this post-war period led to some transportation planners in New Brunswick calling for the consolidation or closure of the , , and airports to be replaced by a single airport located in Sussex to serve all three population centres of southern New Brunswick; Today, Sussex is primarily a regional service centre for the surrounding agricultural communities of the upper Kennebecasis River valley, as well as a highway service centre on Route 1, the primary highway between Moncton and Saint John, as well as being the most heavily travelled route in the Maritimes to the . Sussex is also home to , the only college in Canada owned by the . The town is home to , and at one point it claimed to be the birthplace of the . [ , The Community's Local Radio Station. [ The largest hot air balloon festival in Atlantic Canada is held each summer in Sussex. [ Most people in Sussex have some , , , or ancestry. There are smaller groups of and lineage, and very few , , , and . The town is almost universally , being in the heart of English-speaking southern New Brunswick. [ , Curling World Champion [ [ 45.717°N 65.517°W 45.717;