Inkerman is a community in the
Canadian province
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of
New Brunswick
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on Inkerman Lake. It is located mainly on
Route 113.
History
The place is named after the
Battle of Inkerman
The Battle of Inkerman was fought during the Crimean War on 5 November 1854 between the allied armies of Britain and France against the Imperial Russian Army. The battle broke the will of the Russian Army to defeat the allies in the field, and w ...
in the
Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont fro ...
.
The area was once served by the
Caraquet and Gulf Shore Railway The Caraquet and Gulf Shore Railway was a short line railway on the south shore of Chaleur Bay in New Brunswick that ran for 75 miles between Bathurst and Tracadie with a spur line to Shippagan. Completed in 1890, it became part of the Canadian ...
, a section of which ran between
Tracadie and
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 ...
. In 2017, a 500 metre former railway bridge, then being used as part of the
Sentier NB Trail, was destroyed by fire.
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
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, Inkerman had a population of 712 living in 321 of its 344 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 642. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also
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Inkerman Parish
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List of communities in New Brunswick
This is a list of communities in New Brunswick, a province in Canada. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as either an incorporated municipality, an Indian reserve, or an unincorporated community inside or outside a municipal ...
References
Designated places in New Brunswick
Former municipalities in New Brunswick
Neighbourhoods in Grand Tracadie-Sheila
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