Route 15 is long and is in the southeastern corner of the province of

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. Starting at the north end of the Petitcodiac River Causeway, it loops around the city of

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on Wheeler Boulevard, then turns northeast from

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Shediac Shediac (official in both languages; ''Shédiac'' is colloquial French) is a heavily Acadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. The town is home to the famous Parlee Beach and is known as the "Lobster Capital of the World". It hosts a ...

. From there, it turns east and bypasses Cap-Pelé crossing the Scoudouc River, then southeast to meet the

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at Port Elgin. The highway is a divided

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from Moncton to just east of Shediac, where it remains a

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until east of Cap-Pele.

History

Route 15 only extended from Shediac to Port Elgin until the early 1970s, when the Shediac Four-Lane Highway (the first rural expressway in New Brunswick) was built from Dieppe to Shediac. Its construction was controversial, with critics alleging that it was only built to give Moncton-area politicians better access to their summer

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s in the Shediac area. A two-lane bypass of Shediac itself was built shortly afterward. The Wheeler Boulevard was developed and constructed through the 1970s and 1980s, and was fully complete by 1989. A two-lane bypass of Cap-Pele opened to traffic in 1998. Since then it has proven itself to be a very dangerous highway artery in southeastern New Brunswick. In 2012, a section of this highway between Moncton and Shediac was designated "Veteran's Memorial Highway".Highway of Heroes planned for New Brunswick
Highway Renaming for Veterans.

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