Caraquet
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Caraquet, NB (Nearby: Maisonnette, Pokemouche, Bas-Caraquet, Inkerman, Bertrand)

10du Colisée Street
Caraquet, New Brunswick
E1W 1B7


New Brunswick Tourism Region : Acadian Coast

Description From Owner:
  • The place was settled about 1760 by shipwrecked French sailors.
  • The precise origin of the name is not known, but may be the French version of a Micmac place name Ka-le-gue, meaning 'the junction of two rivers.'
  • Bishop Joseph-Octave-Plessis (1763-1825) described the community in 1811: 'the settlement of Caraquet does not date further back than the conquest of Canada.
  • The first colonists were Acadians . . the advantage of the fishery makes up for the scarcity of meat, as the scarcity of bread is made up for by potatoes which grow in abundance.
  • The codfish, salmon, herring, macquerel, perch, eel, trout, flatfish, sturgeon, lobster, are abundant in the entire bay.' In 1952 the name of Upper and Lower Caraquet were changed to Haut-Caraquet and Bas-Caraquet.
  • New Brunswick's worst rail wreck happened on Dec. 17, 1887 at McIntosh Cove on the Caraquet Railway Company line between Caraquet and Bathurst.
  • Eight men were killed and five seriously injured when a trestle damaged by a winter storm and exceptionally high tides dumped the snow plow, engine and tender into the Caraquet R.
  • A passenger car had fortunately been detached from the engine and tender before it and the plow charged across the bridge to breach a huge snowdrift on the other side of the river.
  • Caraquet hosts a number of folk festivals June through September and is home of the Village Historique Acadien, a museum village at 14311 Route 11 that showcases the lives of Acadians between 1770 and 1939.
  • More than 40 complexes are staffed by bilingual interpreters in period costumes who bring ancestral customs and traditional trades back to life.
  • Musée Acadien de Caraquet at 15 St-Pierre Blvd. W. shows the cultural history of the Acadian Peninsula from the arrival of the first settlers to the present day.
  • The Sainte-Anne-du-Bocage Shrine at 579 St-Pierre Blvd. W. is a monument dedicated to the first Acadians to return to the area following their expulsion.
  • With permission from 'New Brunswick Place Names' David E. Scott 2009


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