Shediac

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Shediac (official name in both French and English; Shédiac is colloquial French) is a town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick known as the "Lobster Capital of the World". It hosts an annual festival every July which promotes its ties to lobster fishing. At the western entrance to the town is a 90-ton sculpture called The World's Largest Lobster.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It is believed that chiac, a well-known Acadian French patois, was named after Shediac.Template:Sfn

Since its founding it has expanded several times, most recently in 2023, when it annexed all or part of four local service districts.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="GovRefMapRSC7">Template:Cite web</ref> Revised census figures have not been released.

Etymology

Shediac was originally called La Batture. Its name was later changed to Shediac in reference to its position at the basin of the Shediac River. The name "Shediac" itself is derived from the Mi'kmaq word Esedeiik, which means "which comes from far away", possibly in reference to the Shediac Bay or the current of the Petitcodiac river.Template:Sfn

Geography

Shediac is situated primarily on Route 133 around Shediac Bay, a sub-basin of the Northumberland Strait.

Its topography is relatively flat and its soil is mostly composed of sedimentary rocks dating from the Pennsylvanian. Shediac enjoys a continental climate.<ref>Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de l'énergie du Nouveau-Brunswick, « Bedrock Geology of New Brunswick » [archive], 2000 (consulté le 19 juin 2009)</ref>

The town is located southwest and adjacent to the community of Pointe-du-Chêne, once the eastern terminus of the European and North American Railway as well as a stopover for Pan-Am's transatlantic "clipper" air service featuring large seaplanes. Imperial Airways' flying boat service to Foynes in Ireland also used the facilities.

History

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Lobster sculpture

Hundreds of years ago, the Mi'kmaq encampment of "Es-ed-ei-ik" was one of the major camps in southeast New Brunswick. The Mi'kmaq word Template:Lang, which means "running far in", in reference to its position where the coastline turns between running north-south and east-west, eventually transformed into Gédaique.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Acadians first arrived at Shediac in 1751 as a result of the Acadian Exodus from peninsular Nova Scotia.Template:Sfn During the French and Indian War, French officer Charles Deschamps de Boishebert made his headquarters at both Shediac and Cocagne, New Brunswick. In the autumn of 1755, Boishebert established himself on the south shore of Cocagne Bay, a place known as Boishebert's Camp. The following year, Boishebert moved to Miramichi, New Brunswick, specifically to Beaubears Island.Template:Sfn After the war, Acadians returned to the region in 1767. Today many francophones use the spelling Template:Lang; however, the town's name upon its incorporation did not feature an accented "e", and correspondingly the official geographic name for the community is Shediac.

Shediac Bay Yacht Club

Shediac Bay Yacht Club is on the Register of 'Canada's Historic Places' for being the location of a local wharf for nearly a century. The previous Shediac Bay Yacht Club House was designed by Roméo Savoie.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Shediac had a population of Template:Val living in Template:Val of its Template:Val total private dwellings, a change of Template:Percentage from its 2016 population of Template:Val. With a land area of Template:Convert, it had a population density of Template:Pop density in 2021.<ref name=census2021/>

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Income type By CAD
Median Total income per capita $31,067
Median Household Income $57,203
Median Family Income $76,373

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Language Population Pct (%)
French 4,435 71.0%
English 1,450 23.2%
English and French 150 2.4%
Other languages 215 3.4%

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Notable people

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Sister city

  • Breaux Bridge, Louisiana since 1970<ref>Clément Cormier, « Les Acadiens de la Louisiane et nous », Les Cahiers, Société historique acadienne, vol. 17, no 1, janvier-mars 1986, p. 13</ref>

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