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New Brunswick Tourism Region : Acadian Coast
Description From Owner:
- The name results from the amalgamation of the communities of Tracadie and Sheila.
- Tracadie's name comes from the Micmac Tulakadik for 'camping ground' as the area was used as a camp while fishing the nearby Big and Little Tracadie Rs.
- In 1603 Champlain showed the place on his map as Tregate and in 1613 as Tregatté. From the 1850s onwards the name has been Tracadie.
- The place was resettled in 1784 by Acadians who had escaped the expulsion of 1755 and by others who returned from exile.
- The post office has been Tracadie since 1851 and the town was incorporated in 1966. Sheila, 5 km S of Tracadie, was named for Sheila Foster whose husband established Tracadie Mills here in 1898. Prior being called Sheila, the place was known as Fosters.
- In 1946 the name Bellefcuille was proposed for Francois de Bellefeuille, a missionary here from 1824 to 1829, but the name was not adopted.
- Tracadie Historic Museum at 222-399 Du Couvent St., is the only museum in Canada to offer insight into a leprosarium and the state of leprosy in Canada in the 19th century.
- In 1849 more than 50 men, women and children afflicted with leprosy were shipped to an isolation hospital on the Tracadie River here, operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph, which closed in 1965.
- Most were new immigrants to Canada and most are buried here, their graves marked with iron crosses.
- With permission from 'New Brunswick Place Names' David E. Scott 2009
Address of this page: http://nb.ruralroutes.com/TracadieSheila