Shippegan (incorrectly Shippagan from the French colloquial spelling) is a geographic parish in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Extensive wetlands lead to a peat moss industry;[5] more recently Spanish multinational Acciona has built a wind farm operation on Lamèque Island.
The former towns and villages of Shippagan, Lamèque, Le Goulet, and Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël each have their own articles; only the former LSDs are detailed here.
LSDs are grouped geographically for convenience; street number boundaries and taxation information are taken from Service New Brunswick.
[23] The remainder of the LSD is mostly wetlands on Taylor and Lamèque Islands, along with Île à William in Saint-Simon-Sud Bay.
The various portions of the parish LSD were divided between the two towns and the rural district by geographical location, with Île à William becoming part of Shippagan.
[29] Petite-Lamèque along the coast ran from Petite-Lamèque Bay to the Pointe-Canot Barachois, with the southern side of Allée de la Pré and Allée des Vacanciers forming parts of its northern border; inland it ran from Rue du Pont and up along Chemin du Portage to numbers 581 and 584, as well as fields east of Portage.
Cecile (Ste-Cécile) contained the northwestern part of Lamèque Island, running along Route 313 from north of Grande Bature to the western bank of Campbells River, extending inland to include several land grants that now host wind turbines.
Established in 1972[33] to provide street lighting, it originally included Pointe-Canot and the northern part of Petite-Lamèque, which were removed in 1987;[31][32] the taxing authority is Saint-Cécile.
Pigeon Hill included the northeastern corner of the island, from the grants along the beach on the southern shore of Miscou Harbour, around Pointe à Baleine and south along Route 305 nearly to Grand Étang, also included some interior grants along or near Grand Ruisseau Road.
[28] Originally most of Cap-Bateau was part of St. Raphael sur-Mer until most of that was incorporated as a village in 1986, when the remainder was returned to the parish LSD.
Established in 1977[36] to provide street lighting, it included four grants at the western end of Rue Saint-Raphaël Ouest until 1986.
Chiasson-Savoy was in the southeastern corner of the island, separated from SMSR and Haut-Lamèque by a large wetland area and a sparsely populated stretch of Route 113.
LeGoulet[g] was the first LSD in the parish, containing modern Le Goulet and a small part of Baie-du-Petit-Pokemouche.
St. Raphael sur-Mer contained most of Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël and Cap-Bateau, with small interior areas of the modern village and LSD not included.