Shippegan Parish, New Brunswick

Shippegan Shippagan
Parish
Location within Gloucester County, New Brunswick
Coordinates: 47°51′18″N 64°37′12″W / 47.855°N 64.62°W
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Gloucester
Established	1851
Area[1]
• Land	207.25 km^2 (80.02 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	5,004
• Density	24.1/km^2 (62/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	6.8%
• Dwellings	2,479
Time zone	AST (UTC-4)
• Summer (DST)	ADT (UTC-3)

Shippegan (incorrectly Shippagan from the French colloquial spelling) is a Canadian parish in Gloucester County, New Brunswick.^[2]

Delineation

Shippegan Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act^[3] as being bounded:

West by Caraquet Parish; northwesterly by Caraquet Bay and Chaleur Bay; and southeasterly by the Gulf of Saint-Lawrence, including the islands of Shippegan^{[lower-alpha 1]} and Miscou.

Communities

Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold):

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[6] Census Population Change (%) 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 (2006)[7] Language Population Pct (%) French only 5,010 93.56% English only 260 4.86% Other languages 60 1.12% Both English and French 25 0.46%

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Footnotes

1. Lamèque Island; the mainland of the parish, which includes the town of Shippagan, is officially Taylor Island.^[4][5]

References

1. 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Shippagan Parish, New Brunswick
2. New Brunswick Provincial Archives - Shippagan Parish
3. "Territorial Division Act (R.S.N.B. 1973, c. T-3)". Government of New Brunswick website. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
4. "Crown Grant Reference Map Viewer". GeoNB. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
5. "Taylor Island". Canadian Geographical Names. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
6. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
7. 2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Shippagan Parish, New Brunswick

Coordinates: 47°51′18″N 64°37′12″W / 47.85500°N 64.62000°W