Le Goulet is a former village in Gloucester County,

New Brunswick New Brunswick is a Provinces and Territories of Canada, province of Canada, bordering Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to ...

, Canada. Located several kilometres east-southeast of downtown

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 ...

, it sits on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Formerly an incorporated village, it is now part of the town of

History

The village was originally called New Jerusalem Settlement when it was initially settled in 1879. Le Goulet was incorporated in 1986. On 1 January 2023, Le Goulet amalgamated with the town of

and all or part of seven local service districts to form the new town of Shippagan. 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

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, Le Goulet 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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