Saint-Louis-de-Kent is a Canadian village in Kent County, New Brunswick. Often shortened to simply Saint-Louis, the village is situated on the Kouchibouguacis River at the main entrance to Kouchibouguac National Park. It is considered as the birthplace of the

Acadian Flag The flag of Acadia is a symbolic flag representing the Acadian community of Canada. It was adopted on 15 August 1884, at the Second Acadian National Convention held in Miscouche, Prince Edward Island, by nearly 5,000 Acadian delegates from a ...

. A local park, ''parc des forgeron'', celebrates the birth of this flag in 1884.

History

Saint-Louis-de-Kent was founded by

Joseph Babineau Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

in 1797. L'Académie Saint-Louis was founded in 1874 by Father Marcel-François Richard. The Congregation of Notre-Dame of Montréal founded a convent in 1879. The academy became a college in 1876, but it was closed in 1882 by Bishop James Rogers. Additional facilities included a telephone line between Quebec and Halifax. A religious Grotto and Calvary was erected next to the Kouchibouguacis River between 1878 and 1882, and remains an important Acadian pilgrimage site. It was declared a Heritage Site in 2005. The Saint-Louis Caisse Populaire was founded in 1938. L'

École Mgr-Marcel-François-Richard École Mgr-Marcel-François-Richard is a Francophone high school in Saint-Louis-de-Kent, New Brunswick, Canada operated by Francophone Sud School District. The school is named after Monsignor Marcel-François Richard who was a priest who was esp ...

was opened in 1978.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Saint-Louis de Kent had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Population trend Statistics Canada:

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census Religious make-up (2001) Income (2006) Mother tongue language (2011)

Notable people

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Saint-Louis-de-Kent
{{Authority control Communities in Kent County, New Brunswick Villages in New Brunswick

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