Visa sponsors in New Brunswick
96 sponsoring employers, 1.2% of every sponsor in Canada, making it the 8th largest, covering 1,815 approved LMIA positions. Figures as of September 2026.
What this number counts
ESDC publishes approved headcount on positive Labour Market Impact Assessments, not visas issued. A position can be approved and never filled, so this measures permission to hire abroad rather than arrivals.
LMIA volume is dominated by seasonal agriculture, so this shows who sponsors, not demand for any particular profession.
An employer operating in more than one province appears under each of them, so province figures do not add up to the national total. Every number on this page is read straight from IRCC / ESDC positive LMIA employer list, and none of it is an estimate.
The largest sponsors in New Brunswick
These are the employers with the most approved LMIA positions recorded against a New Brunswick address, named exactly as the register spells them. Between them they account for 83.3% of everything the register attributes to New Brunswick, which is how concentrated sponsorship here really is.
| Employer | Approved positions |
|---|---|
| Cape Bald Packers Ltd | 361 |
| 11656520 Canada Inc. | 275 |
| NOCA Canadian Seafood Buyer, Inc. | 220 |
| Baie Ste Anne Seafoods (2014) Inc. | 186 |
| Phillips Bridge Seafood ULC | 178 |
| Captain Dan's Inc. | 155 |
| Silver Valley Farms | 44 |
| Elphege & Norbert Leblanc Ltd | 36 |
| Les Petits Fruits de Pré-d'en-Haut Inc. | 33 |
| B. McGrath & Son's Ltd | 24 |
What sponsored work in New Brunswick looks like
Every positive assessment names the work it was granted for. Counting employers rather than positions keeps this exact: a single approval total covers all of an employer's occupations at once, and splitting it between them would invent a number ESDC never published.
| Occupation | Employers |
|---|---|
| Harvesting labourers | 17 |
| Cooks | 10 |
| Fish and seafood plant workers | 9 |
| Food service supervisors | 8 |
| Labourers in fish and seafood processing | 7 |
| Chefs | 5 |
How New Brunswick compares
9 provinces and territories clear the 25-employer floor we report on individually, and sponsorship is nowhere near evenly spread between them. Quebec carries 28.2 times as many sponsoring employers as New Brunswick, so where you look changes the odds before your CV does.
Using this to find a sponsored job in New Brunswick
A place on the register means an employer has sponsored before, which is the single hardest thing to verify from a job advert. It does not mean they are hiring today, so treat the list as a shortlist to research rather than a set of open roles.
Our job board for Canada only carries listings from employers on this register. The full Canada breakdown ranks every region, and our analysis of all three registers sets out how the UK, US and Canadian sources differ and why their numbers should never be added together.
Source: IRCC / ESDC positive LMIA employer list, last confirmed current in September 2026.
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