Saint-Louis-de-KentWritten Saint-Louis de Kent in successive regulations defining the province's municipalities, the common form with three hyphens was normally used even by other provincial government departments. is a former village in Kent County,

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, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023 and is now part of the town of Beaurivage. Often shortened to simply Saint-Louis, the village is situated on the Kouchibouguacis River at the main entrance to

Kouchibouguac National Park Kouchibouguac National Park () is a national park located on the east coast of New Brunswick in Kouchibouguac and was established in 1969 to preserve a section of the Canadian Maritime Plain region. The park includes barrier islands, sand ...

. It is considered as the birthplace of the Acadian Flag. A local park, ''parc des forgeron'', celebrates the birth of this flag in 1884.

History

Saint-Louis-de-Kent was founded by Joseph Babineau 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 es ...

was opened in 1978. On 1 January 2023, Saint-Louis-de-Kent amalgamated with the town of

Richibucto Richibucto is a former town in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held town status prior to 2023 and is now part of the town of Beaurivage. Geography The town is situated on the Richibucto River where it discharges into the Northumberl ...

and all or part of for local service districts to form the new town of Beaurivage. The community's name remains in official use.

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:

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

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

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