Shippegan Parish, New Brunswick
Shippegan is a civil parish in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is the most subdivided parish in the province, with two towns: Shippagan and Lamèque; two villages: Le Goulet and Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël; and fourteen local service districts: Baie du Petit Pokemouche, Cap-Bateau, Chiasson-Savoy, Coteau Road, Haut-Lamèque, Haut-Shippagan, Miscou Island, Petite-Lamèque, Pigeon Hill, Pointe-Alexandre, Pointe-Canot, Pointe-Sauvage and Ste. Cecile and the parish of Shippegan, which further includes the special service area of Pointe Brûlée.
The parish consists of the two main islands of Miscou and Lamèque; the former tidal island of Taylor, now joined to the mainland by an isthmus; and several tidal islands and sandbars.Delineation
Shippegan Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as being bounded:Communities
Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities :
- Cap-Bateau
- Chiasson-Savoy
- Coteau Road
- Haut-Lamèque
- Haut-Shippagan
- Herring Point
- Lamèque
- Le Goulet
- Miscou Centre
- Miscou Harbour
- Miscou Lighthouse
- Miscou Plains
- Petite-Lamèque
- Petite-Rivière-de-l'lle
- Petit-Shippagan
- Pigeon Hill
- Pointe-Alexandre
- Pointe-Brûlé
- Pointe-Canot
- Sainte-Cécile
- Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël
- Shippagan
- Shippagan Portage
- Wilson Point
Demographics
Population
Population trend
Census | Population | Change |
2016 | 4,800 | 4.1% |
2011 | 5,004 | 6.8% |
2006 | 5,370 | 3.3% |
2001-Adj | 5,552 | 0.0% |
2001 | 5,600 | 5.3% |
1996 | 5,913 | 2.0% |
1991 | 6,031 | N/A |
Language
Mother tongue
Language | Population | Pct |
French only | 4610 | 96.0% |
English only | 165 | 3.4% |
Other languages | 5 | 0.1% |
Both English and French | 20 | 0.4% |
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