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Oromocto| Seat of Sunbury County, southern-central New Brunswick, Canada, at the junction of the Oromocto River with the St John River, 21 km/13 mi southeast of Fredericton; population (1991) 9,300. It is primarily a service centre for C F Gagetown, Canada's largest military training facility, which extends over an area of 110,000 ha/275,000 ac on the town's eastern border. |
| Formerly the site of Native Canadian Malecite and Acadian settlements, Oromocto was established in 1783 by Loyalists, colonists who maintained allegiance to Britain during the American Revolution. It remained a small agricultural and lumbering community until the expansion of the base in the 1950s. |
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