Shippagan

Shippagan is a harbor city and Canadian Universitaire located in the area of the acadian Péninsule and the county of Gloucester, in the North-East of the New Brunswick. It is the capital of commercial fishing in New Brunswick.

Geography

Shippagan is located at the end of Presqu'île of Shippagan, in the north of the Plaine. It bordering on Point-Is burned, Haut-Shippagan and Point-Savage. The city has two littorals. That in north is bordered by the harbor of Shippagan, part of the Baie of Shippagan, while that in the south is bordered by the Baie Saint-Simon. There are no river or important lake. The ground is very flat. The south is marshy and counts large a Tourbière, that of the Lac of the Narrow part. The remainder of the territory is partially wooded. Balbuzard S live in the area.

The main street of the city bears the name of Boulevard J.D Gauthier , of the name of the Dr. J. Dominique Gauthier. On this street the majority of the trade and the university are. In the north of the boulevard the port of Shippagan is. This district includes/understands a sporting center, the college, the aquarium, a restaurant, a historical headlight, the church, some residences, a marina, a fishing port, factories and stores of tackle of fishing. Southern part of the boulevard are rather residences, the other factories, the schools and the town hall.

History

Shippagan comes from the Sepagun-scanty intrigue , which means passage of the ducks . This name would be composed of three principal roots: sebaase (to pass), owokun (bearing or passage) and scanty (Duck). The name would refer to the area and not to the precise place. He decides Chipagan , and not Chipagane like wants it the popular belief.

The name of the city had various orthographies. In spite of the fact that Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain and Nicolas Denys explored all the area, none mentioned the name Shippagan. The first appearance of the name was in 1656, when a missionary capuchin of name of Ignace of Paris proposed in a letter with his superiors to establish stations of missionaries into four or five places of Acadie, of which Miscou and Shippagan. He wrote in the Latin name in , Cibaguensi .

At the 18th century, the most current form of the name was Chipagan and some alternatives. Certain english-speaking used the French orthography, but that English was essential starting from the beginning of the 19th century, with some alternatives, of which Shipagan , Ship-have-gang , Shipegan , Shippegan , Shippigan and Shippagan . It should be noted that a village of the 18th century located on the site of current the Bas-Caraquet was called Chipagan .

Demography

According to the last data of Statistical Canada, the city counted 2.754 inhabitants in 2006, compared to 2.920 in 2001, that is to say a fall of 5,6%. The city has a surface of 9,94 km ² square and a density of 277,1 inhabitants to the km ². Its population is Francophone to 99%.

Administration

The Maire is Jonathan Roch Christmas and the city council men are Bernice Doiron Chiasson, Wilfred L. Gaudet, Remi Hébert, Jean-Marc Mallet, Patrice-Éloi Mallet and Odette Paquet.

The provincial deputy of the Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou district is the hon. Paul Robichaud. The federal deputy of the Acadie-Bathurst district is the hon. Yvon Godin.

Economy

Commercial fishing and the extraction of the peat constitute the main activities of the municipality.

Infrastructures and services

August 1st

The school the Flight accommodates the pupils of the Maternelle at the 8th year while the Polyvalente Marie-Esther acceuille those of 9th at the 12th year.

Culture and inheritance

The campus of Shippagan of the Université of Moncton (UMCS) is in the middle of the cultural life of the city. The UMCS accommodates each year more than 400 students and gathers forty professor-researchers. The campus also accommodates the offices of the organizing committee of the 4th edition of the acadian World congress, which will be held 7 with the August 23rd 2009 in the acadian Péninsule. The acadian CCNB-Peninsula is near the university.

The Aquarium and marine center of New Brunswick are a tourist attraction very appraisal of the visitors in summer season. One finds there a collection of a hundred marine species, of which common seals ( Phoca vitulina ). The aquarium doubles of a museum, where machines and commercial fishing tackle are exposed.

Personalities born in Shippagan

Michael Ward, defender for the Maineiacs de Lewiston, was also fished out during the fishing out of the National league of Hockey by the Lightning de Tampa Bay.

Municipalities bordering

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