Dieppe, New Brunswick

For other uses, see Dieppe (disambiguation).
Dieppe
City
City of Dieppe
Ville de Dieppe

Dieppe Watertower (51 metres) Saint-Anselme

Seal

Logo
Motto: "Constantia et virtute"  (Latin)
"By constancy and virtue"

Location of Dieppe in New Brunswick

Coordinates: 46°05′56″N 64°43′27″W / 46.098889°N 64.724167°W / 46.098889; -64.724167
Country  Canada
Province  New Brunswick
County Westmorland
Parish Moncton
City January 1, 2003
Town January 1, 1952
Incorporated village February 8, 1946
Founded 1730
Government
  Type Dieppe City Council
  Mayor Yvon Lapierre
  MPs Robert Goguen
  MLAs Roger Melanson (Dieppe)
Area
  City 54.11 km2 (19.25 sq mi)
  Urban 98.388 km2 (37.988 sq mi)
  Metro 117.309 km2 (45.293 sq mi)
Highest elevation 45 m (148 ft)
Lowest elevation 5 m (16 ft)
Population (2011/2014)[1][2]
  City 23,310
  Density 299.9/km2 (776.7/sq mi)
  Urban 107,068
  Metro 146,073
Time zone AST (UTC-4)
  Summer (DST) ADT (UTC-3)
Postal code(s) E1A
Area code(s) 506
NTS Map 021I02
GNBC Code DADHJ
Website www.dieppe.ca

Dieppe is a city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is New Brunswick's fourth most populous city with a history and identity that goes back to the eighteenth century. It was first incorporated as a town in 1952 and designated as a city in 2003. Its namesake comes from a commune in the Seine-Maritime department, a port on the English Channel, in France and was adopted by the citizens of the area in 1946 to commemorate the Second World War's Operation Jubilee, the Dieppe Raid of 1942.[3]

Dieppe is officially a francophone city; French is the native language of 73.9% of the population. A majority of the population reports being bilingual, speaking both French and English.[4] Residents generally speak French with a regional accent (colloquially called "Chiac") which is unique to southeastern New Brunswick. A large majority of Dieppe’s population were in favour of the by-law regulating the use of external commercial signs in both official languages, which is a first for the province of New Brunswick.[5][6][7] Dieppe is the largest predominantly francophone city in Canada outside Québec; while there are other municipalities with greater total numbers of francophones, they constitute a minority of the population in those cities.[8] Dieppe was one of the co-hosts of the first Congrès Mondial Acadien (Acadian World Congress) which was held in the Moncton region in 1994.

In 2011, Dieppe (City / Cité) had a population of 23,310, representing a percentage change of 25.6% from 2006. This compares to the national average growth of 5.9%. Land area is 54.11 square kilometres with a population density of 430.8 persons per square kilometre. This compares to the provincial land area of 71,377.18 square kilometres with a population density of 10.5 persons per square kilometre.[9]

Dieppe (City / Cité) is part of the census metropolitan area of Moncton, which is New Brunswick most populous estimated at 146,073 as of July 2014.

Government

Federal and provincial representatives

Provincial electoral districts Members of the 58th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly (2014), the governing house of the province of New Brunswick.[10][11]

Federal electoral districts Members of the 42nd Parliament of Canada (2015).[12] A section of southeast Dieppe is in the Beauséjour riding.

Geography

Dieppe is located on the Petitcodiac River. It forms the southeastern part of the Greater Moncton Area, which also includes the city of Moncton, the town of Riverview, Moncton Parish, Memramcook, Coverdale, and Salisbury.

Population

Dieppes' proper population increased significantly from 1971 to 1981 with the 1973 unification of the surrounding communities, i.e. Saint Anselme, Fox Creek/Dover and Chartersville. Being part of Moncton census metropolitan area, as of July 2014, Statistics Canada estimated the (CMA) had a population of 146,073 - making it the largest urban area in New Brunswick and the third largest in Atlantic Canada. The population has grown since the last official census in 2011 when the metropolitan area had 138,644 residents.[13] In addition, the Population Centre is estimated at 107,086, according to the 2011 census.[2]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
19513,402    
19614,032+18.5%
19714,277+6.1%
19818,511+99.0%
19869,084+6.7%
199110,650+17.2%
199612,497+17.3%
200114,951+19.6%
200618,565+24.2%
201123,310+25.6%
2016n/a    

Detailed mother tongue (2011 data)[4][14][15]

Language Population Pct (%)
French 16,565 73.93%
English 5,335 23.81%
Non-official languages 505 2.25%

History

Acadians from the Petitcoudiac and Shepody (french Chipoudy) regions were the first pioneers to settle in the area and founded Sylvabreau in 1730, followed by the Melanson family at Ruisseau-des-Renards (Fox Creek) in 1746 and the LeBlanc and Boudreau families at Chartersville in 1776.[16] Preceding the arrival of Acadian settlers, the southern part of the province was inhabited by the Algonquin people.

Sylvabreau/Battle of the Petitcodiac

The Battle of the Petitcodiac was fought on September 2, 1755 during the British expulsion of the Acadians, after the capture of Fort Beauséjour. The Massachusetts-British force was soundly defeated by troops from Boishébert, Acadian militia, and First Nations' warriors. At the mouth of the Nacadie Creek (Hall's) settlements such as le Coude (The Bend), Sylvabreau and the surrounding hamlets were destroyed.[17] Even after these raids, Acadians returned to these villages and the numbers grew as the deportation from peninsular Nova Scotia continued, followed by the deportation from present-day Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. Victory for the British occurred three years later (1758) during the Petitcodiac River Campaign (fr:La bataille du Cran) which resulted in the deportation of the Acadians that lived along the Petitcodiac River or had taken refuge there from earlier deportation operations.

From municipal/town/city designation

Dieppe was known as Upper Village after the Expulsion and was settled by the Surette, Maillet, and Thibodeau families, while Chartersville was called Leblanc's Village and also included members of the Boudreau's clan. Prior to 1800, Pierre Bourgeois had established himself on the (Ruisseau des Renards) Fox Creek salt marsh. Agriculture, forestry and some fishing sustained these Acadian families up until the mid-1800s, when shipbuilding and railways created employment opportunities for Acadians around the Moncton area. After a bridge was completed in 1867 at the mouth of Hall's Creek (Nacadie during the French settlement at Le Coude), a road was constructed that link the incorporated Town of Moncton's Westmorland Road (Main Street) to the (French Village) Dieppe area. This road went through farmland that had belong to the Leger family and intersected the old road (Acadie Avenue) that had taken travellers up and around Hall's Creek to the community of Lewisville to get to Moncton. By 1900, the little area around the intersection became known as Léger's Corner, and with the increasing traffic from the bridge, merchants became attracted to the corner and soon set up shops and services around the intersection. Prior to the First World War, a small residential development was erected, and the community continue to grow until the Second World War. Then a population explosion occurred. Léger's Corner received the largest influx of military personnel in southeastern New Brunswick. Ten thousand airmen (due to the airport) and their support staff arrived overnight in 1940, and soon temporary warehouses and housing were erected. When Léger's Corner became incorporated as a municipal village in 1946,[18] the community was renamed Dieppe, after a port in France on the English Channel, to honour the 913 Canadian servicemen who took part in the Dieppe Raid, the bloody landing by Allied soldiers, on August 19, 1942, during the Second World War. Then, part of Lakeburn was annexed in 1946 and Dieppe-East in 1948. A referendum (262 for, 232 against)[19] marginally favoured the village to incorporate as the Town of Dieppe in 1952. At that time, Dieppe had over 3,000 inhabitants within its boundaries. Growth continued unabated throughout the 1950s and 1960s as Dieppe annexed the villages of Saint-Anselme and Chartersville and the local service districts of Fox Creek-Dover(Upper Dover), the latter in 1973. With its rural expansion came a growth in population exceeding 8,500 in the 1981 census. Within the 1980s and early 1990s, the Town of Dieppe, like the rest of the region, went through an economic downfall which limited its growth in population. By 2001, the Greater Moncton area and Dieppe's economy flourished and with it came a population increment of nearly 15,000 in 2001 to over 23,000 in 2011. To preserve its heritage, culture and identity as a community in Southern New Brunswick, Dieppe opted to incorporate itself as a city on January 1, 2003. At that time it became New Brunswick's eighth incorporated city.

Maps of Dieppe from the 1960s shows Champlain Street below Acadie Avenue as Main Street and above the intersection as Airport Road.[20]

Neighbourhoods

Dieppe's geographic area is a direct union of Acadian parishes and villages such as:[21]

Education

Provincial public school systems

The following are a list of public schools in the city:

School Name Start End School District Year Open Max Enrolment 2012 Enrolment Notes
École Amirault K 2 Francophone Sud 1969 307
École Sainte-Therèse K 2 Francophone Sud 1954 466 New facilities and improvements were added in 2011.[26]
École Anna-Malenfant 3 5 Francophone Sud 1992 665
Lou MacNarin School K 8 Anglophone East 1995 569
École Mathieu-Martin 9 12 Francophone Sud 1972 940
École Carrefour de l'Acadie 6 8 Francophone Sud 2006 572

Higher educational institutions

CCNB - Dieppe

Parks and recreation

As of 2011, the community has some thirty parks and green spaces: one city park, fifteen district parks, seven neighbourhood parks, five green islands and a linear park with 20 km (12 mi) of trails. [28]

Festivals

Sports facilities

Attractions

The city of Dieppe is a participant in the province of New Brunswick's local historic places program, funded by the government of Canada through the historic places initiative.[31]

Monuments

Saint Anselme Church - The current building was erected in 1900.

Prominent buildings

Shopping

[38]

Media

Transportation

Greater Moncton International Airport

The Greater Moncton International Airport was officially opened in 2002 by Queen Elizabeth II. It is 6 km from downtown Dieppe and 10 km from Moncton.[39] Moncton Flight College, the largest private flight school in Canada, is at the airport. MFC has trained over 16,000 pilots from around the world since 1929.[40]

Rapid Transit

Codiac Transpo is the city of Moncton, Dieppe and town of Riverview's public transit system. Within Codiac transpo 47 bus fleet, three services Dieppe's main arteries and subdivisions seven days a week; in addition to its numerous fleet of Codiac Buses at the Champlain Place terminal.[41] Services to the inner city has been offered since 1984. Services is provided seven days a week with late evening routes and modified weekend hours. In 2012, the route scheduling was modified to reflect the Codiac Transpo services. With it came a change transit destination and new route numbers.

Roads and Bridges

(The present site of the Fox Creek bridge holds historical facts which dates back to the 1800s. A geographical map of the region made by the English forces shows families with the Amirault surnames living in the area. Later, Acadians built earthen dykes (aboiteau) at Pointe des renards to prevent flooding, which also served as "bridges" for both banks of the river. In 1924, a low rise bridge was constructed that flooded every two to three years.)

Both bridges are on Route 106, which follows the original provincial Route 2 from Quebec to Nova Scotia. Through the late 1950s and 1960s, a number of bypasses and realignments, mostly two-lane, were built to improve Route 2 with federal Trans-Canada Highway funds. The first, built in the 1950s, was around Moncton. The old road became Route 2A, but it was renumbered Route 6 in 1965 and 106 in 1984 during a reclassification of provincial highways. It is still signed as Route 6 at the corner of Cameron St. and Main St. (the current Route 106) in downtown Moncton - [47] At Moncton, Route 106 runs through Main Street and passes Hall's Creek bridge up to the intersection in centre-ville Dieppe connecting Amirault Street, which leaves the city to the southeast en route to Memramcook. The aforementioned route had a significant impact for the future community of Dieppe has it linked southeast New Brunswick to Nova Scotia prior to the completion of the new Trans-Canada Highway. In addition, it attracted new residents to cultivate the land and build dwellings throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Notable people

Sister cities

Bordering communities

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 New Brunswick (Canada): Province & Urban Areas - Statistics & Maps by »City Population«
  3. Operation Jubilee - The Dieppe Raid
  4. 1 2 http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=1307045&Geo2=CD&Code2=1307&Data=Count&SearchText=dieppe&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=1
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  12. Members of Parliament
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  25. List of historic places in Westmorland County, New Brunswick
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  32. 1 2 http://www.dieppe.ca/monuments_historic_sites.cfm
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  34. Unité pastorale Marie Reine de l'Acadie - Accueil
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  37. Palais Crystal Palace
  38. Bass Pro Complex (Dieppe)
  39. Greater Moncton International Airport specs
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  44. File:Tidal bore.jpg
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External links

Coordinates: 46°05′56″N 64°43′27″W / 46.09889°N 64.72417°W / 46.09889; -64.72417 (Dieppe, New Brunswick)

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