Shippagan
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Shippagan is a Canadian town withinTemplate:Refn Shippegan Parish, Gloucester County, New Brunswick.
The parish retains the original English spelling, while the town officially adopted the colloquial French spelling on 1 July 1981.[1]
Shippagan was greatly enlarged on 1 January 2023, when it amalgamated with Le Goulet and all or part of seven local service districts[2][3] Revised census figures have not been released.
Geography
Shippagan is located in the northeastern part of the Acadian Peninsula: a combination bridge-causeway connects the town with Lamèque Island to the northeast.
The peninsula is approximately 5 km (3 miles) long and at maximum 5 km (3 miles) wide, bordered on the north-west by Shippagan Bay, to the north by Shippagan harbour to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and to the west by St Simon's Bay.
Approximately 99% of the town's residents are Francophone.
History
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The location of the town is an ideal spot for fishing, which was its first economic product, as well as exporting timber from further inland. There are also numerous peat bogs in the area, and their exploitation continues to this day.
Shippagan is home to campuses of the Université de Moncton and New Brunswick Community College.
On 25 May 2021,[5] Shippagan elected Kassim Doumbia as mayor, making him the first Black mayor in New Brunswick.[6]
Etymology
The name originates from the Mi'kmaq Sepagun-chiche, which roughly translates as "Ducks' transit route". This name described the immediate region rather than the specific location of the current settlement that inherited the name.
Different spellings have been applied over the years. None of the earliest known francophone explorers such as Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain and Nicolas Denys mentions the name Shippagan, which appears in writing for the first time only in 1656 when Ignatius of Paris, a Capucine missionary, wrote to his superiors recommending the establishment of four or five missionary posts, one of which he called "Cibaguensi", a Latinised form of Shippagan.
During the eighteenth century various orthographies were used for the nearby settlement on the site of what is now Bas-Caraquet,[7] most commonly Chipagan, and this is the name subsequently applied and adapted for modern-day Shippagan. Early English language texts applied the francophone spelling, "Chipagan", but from the early nineteenth centuries various anglophone variants were preferred, such as Shipagan, Ship-a-gang, Shipegan, Shippegan, Shippigan and Shippagan.[8] By the twenty-first century custom had settled on "Town of Shippagan" which on 9 September 2009, was officially reduced to "Shippagan".[9]
Demographics
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Language
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2,375 | Decrease 4.4% | 96.35% | 45 | Decrease 35.7% | 1.82% | 10 | Steady 0.0% | 0.41% | 35 | Increase 75.0% | 1.42% | |||||
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2,485 | Decrease 7.1% | 96.13% | 70 | Increase 180.0% | 2.71% | 10 | Increase n/a% | 0.39% | 20 | Increase 100.0% | 0.77% | |||||
2001 Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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2,675 | Increase 2.1% | 98.71% | 25 | Decrease 64.3% | 0.92% | 0 | Decrease 100.0% | 0.00% | 10 | Increase n/a% | 0.37% | |||||
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2,620 | n/a | 97.04% | 70 | n/a | 2.59% | 10 | n/a | 0.37% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | |||||
Coat of arms
On 15 August 2019, the town was granted a coat of arms by the Canadian Heraldic Authority, while the announcement of the Letters Patent was made on 28 March 2020, in Volume 154, page 692 of the Canada Gazette.[12]Template:Infobox COA wide
Notable people
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- Luc Bourdon – an NHL ice hockey defenseman who played with the Vancouver Canucks.
See also
Notes
References
External links
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- ↑ Regulation 81-110 under the Municipalities Act.
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- ↑ Donat Robichaud, "ROBICHAUX (Robichaud, Robicheau), JEAN-BAPTISTE" (1983, DCB)
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- ↑ Donat Robichaud, Le Grand Chipagan – Histoire de Shippagan Beresford, 1976. pp. 19-20.
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