The Narrow part

the Narrow part is a coastal Village Canadian located in the area of the acadian Péninsule and county of Gloucester, in the North-East of the New Brunswick.

Geography

The Narrow part is located in the Plaine of Shippagan, at the edge of the Golfe the St. Lawrence. The littoral is composed of coastal Marais and a Plage. The village is bordered in north by the lake of the Narrow part and in the North-East by the harbor of Shippagan.

The Narrow part is bordering on the parish of Shippagan. The village forms of it officially part, even if it is not included there for ends of census.

History

First inhabitants of the area furents the Intrigue S.

The first European families of origin to beings established were Mallet, Duguay and Roussel. Then Elward, Chiasson, Goupil, Plantain and Mailloux came.

The village was called in the beginning New Jerusalem Settlement . Then, it took the name Shippagan Gully to become Shippegan Gully and finally the Narrow part , in 1961.

The Community room was built in 1980 and the built-in village on May 12th, 1986.

Heraldic

Demography

It there had 969 inhabitants in 2001, compared to 1.029 in 1996, that is to say a fall of 5,8%. The village has a surface of 5,46km square and a density of 177,4 inhabitants to the square km. (1)

Administration

The city council men are Delcia Cool, Ulysses Haché, Emilie Roussel Richard, Madeleine Roussel and Roger Roussel.

Economy

The fishing principal the is activitée economic one. The catches are mainly Homard, Crabe, Crevette, Morue and Hareng.

Infrastructures and services

Culture and inheritance

The architecture of the Narrow part is not necessarily remarkable, but one finds there several houses centenaries, some dating from the Années 1860. The families of the Narrow part have a nickname, such as for example canisses , the S , the cats , etc Certains nicknames are applied to several families.

Surrounding municipalities

Notes and references of the article

Jeannie Lavallée, the Paradise of inshore fishing , Editions of the Francophonie, Moncton, 2002. ISBN 2-923016-11-4

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