Shediac is a

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in Westmorland County,

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. For governance purposes it is divided between the town of

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 ...

, the village of Cap-Pelé, the incorporated rural community of

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;, and the local service districts of Grande-Digue, Pointe-du-Chêne, Scoudouc, Scoudouc Road,

Shediac Bridge-Shediac River Shediac Bridge-Shediac River was a local service district in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The small local service district is located in Shediac Parish, Westmorland County, and Dundas Parish, Kent County, straddling the lower r ...

, Shediac Cape, and the parish of Shediac. All governance units are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commission.

Origin of name

The parish's name comes the community of Shediac, itself from a corruption of

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''Es-ed-ei'-ik'', translated by

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as "running far back." There was a Fort Shediac mentioned in documents around 1755, on the mainland opposite Shediac Island.

History

Shediac was erected in 1827 from Dorchester and Sackville Parishes. In 1894 the existing boundaries were declared retroactive to the parish's erection. In 1904 the boundary with Botsford Parish was clarified.

Boundaries

Shediac Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on maps 120 and 121 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 320, 321, 338–340, and 360 at same site. * on the north by the Kent County line and

Northumberland Strait The Northumberland Strait (French: ''détroit de Northumberland'') is a strait in the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in eastern Canada. The strait is formed by Prince Edward Island and the gulf's eastern, southern, and western sho ...

; * on the east by a line beginning about 375 metres east of the mouth of the Tedish River and running south 4º 30' west to a point about 1.6 kilometres northwesterly of the junction of Chemin des Moulins and Route 940 and about 450 metres from Square Lake; * on the south by the prolongation of a line running south 83º 45' east from the southern side of the mouth of Fox Creek; * on the west by a line beginning about 1.3 kilometres east of the

Memramcook River The Memramcook River is a river located in Westmorland County, in southeastern New Brunswick, eastern Canada. Geography Its meander length is approximately , of which approximately is a tidal estuary to its discharge point into the Petitcodiac ...

, at the prolongation of the southwestern line of a grant to Columb Connor on Route 134, then running northwesterly along the prolongation, the Connor grant, and its northwesterly prolongation to the Kent County line.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. bold indicates an incorporated municipality or rural community; ''italics'' indicate a name no longer in official use * Batemans Mills * Cap-Pelé ** Dupuis Corner * Dieppe * Evangeline * Gilberts Corner * MacDougall * Malakoff * Moncton Road * Pointe-du-Chêne * Saint-Philippe * Scoudouc (''Dorchester Crossing'') *

** Chapman Corner ** East Shediac ** Ohio-du-Barachois ** Rings Corner * Shediac Bridge * Shediac River * Shediac Cape * The Bluff * Beaubassin East ** Barachois ** Basse-Aboujagane ** Boudreau ** Bourgeois Mills ** Cap-Brûlé ** Cormier-Village ** Drisdelle ** Gallant Settlement ** Glaude ** Haute-Aboujagane ** LeBlanc ** Robichaud ** Saint-André-de-Shédiac

Bodies of water

Bodies of waterNot including brooks, ponds or coves. at least partly within the parish. * Aboujagane River * Kinnear River * Kouchibouguac River * Scoudouc River * Shediac River * Tedish River * Bear Creek * Mill Creek *

Shediac Bay 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 ...

* Shediac Harbour * Lac des Boudreau * Poucette Lake * Petit Barachois

Islands

Islands at least partly within the parish. * Shediac Island * Skull Island

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish. * Cormier Aerodrome *

Parlee Beach Provincial Park Parlee Beach Provincial Park is a provincial park located in Pointe-du-Chêne, New Brunswick, Canada. Geography Parlee Beach Provincial Park is located in eastern Westmorland County fronting the Northumberland Strait on the northeast side of P ...

* Scoudouc Industrial Park * Shediac Bridge Aerodrome

Demographics

Parish population total does not include the town of

and portions within

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, Cap-Pelé, and

Population

Language

Mother tongue (2016)

Access routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas *Highways ** ** *Principal Routes ** ** ** *Secondary Routes: **None *External Routes: **None