Shepody, New Brunswick

Shepody or Chipoudie [fr] also distinguishes the area corresponding to the French period Acadian settlement, which populated both sides of the River by the same name, with its centre located north of the estuary at today's Hopewell Hill.

Following the breakup of the principal grant of land (Hopewell Township, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia), settlement in the areas gained pace.

[2] By 1701, poitevin Pierre Thibaudeau and members of his family (four sons and a friend) moved from Port Royal to Chipoudy, inaugurating another cluster of Acadian settlements there and on the Petitcodiac River.

[4] The former village was situated on the west side of Shepody Bay, at the foot of Caledonian Hills, in the region where the ground is low, the Chipody marshes.

The village corresponds to approximately the territory that lies between Mary's Point and cap des Demoiselles, which is now in the Albert county, south-east of New Brunswick.