Paquetville is an unincorporated community in Gloucester County,

New Brunswick New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and ...

, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023. It is on the

Acadian Peninsula The Acadian Peninsula (french: Péninsule acadienne) is situated in the northeastern corner of New Brunswick, Canada, encompassing portions of Gloucester and Northumberland Counties. It derives its name from the large Acadian population located ...

at the intersection of Route 340, Route 135 and Route 350.

History

Paquetville was founded by Monseigneur Paquet in 1873, who brought several parishioners with him from

Shippagan Shippagan is a Canadian town within Shippegan Parish, Gloucester County, New Brunswick. The parish retains the original English spelling, while the town officially adopted the colloquial French spelling on 1 July 1981. Shippagan was great ...

. On 1 January 2023, Paquetville amalgamated with the village of Saint-Isidore and all or part of six local service districts to form the new town of

Hautes-Terres Hautes-Terres is a town in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It was formed through the 2023 New Brunswick local governance reforms. History Hautes-Terres was incorporated on January 1, 2023 via the amalgamation of the former villages of ...

. The community's name remains in official use.

Demographics

In the

2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...

conducted by Statistics Canada, Paquetville 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.

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Notable people

The village is the home of

Édith Butler Édith Butler (born Marie Nicole Butler, 27 July 1942) is an Acadian-Canadian singer-songwriter and folklorist of from New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula. Biography Édith Butler was born in Paquetville on the Acadian Peninsula in Glouces ...

, who sings the song ''Paquetville''.

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{{Coord, 47, 40, 08, N, 65, 05, 57, W, display=title Communities in Gloucester County, New Brunswick Former villages in New Brunswick

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