10 Facts About Dieppe NB

1.

Dieppe NB is a city in the Canadian maritime province of New Brunswick.

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2.

The Dieppe NB name was adopted by the citizens of the area in 1946 to commemorate the Second World War's Operation Jubilee, the Dieppe NB Raid of 1942.

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3.

Dieppe NB is the largest predominantly francophone city in Canada outside Quebec; while there are other municipalities with greater total numbers of francophones, they constitute a minority of the population in those cities.

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4.

Dieppe NB was one of the co-hosts of the first Congres Mondial Acadien which was held in the Moncton region in 1994, and again in 2019.

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5.

Dieppe NB 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 included members of the Boudreau's clan.

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6.

Growth continued unabated throughout the 1950s and 1960s as Dieppe NB annexed the villages of Saint-Anselme and Chartersville and the local service districts of Fox Creek-Dover, the latter in 1973.

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7.

Dieppe NB's geographic area is a direct union of Acadian parishes and villages such as:.

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8.

City of Dieppe NB 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.

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9.

At Moncton, Route 106 runs through Main Street and passes Hall's Creek bridge up to the intersection in centre-ville Dieppe NB connecting Amirault Street, which leaves the city to the southeast en route to Memramcook.

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10.

The aforementioned route had a significant impact for the future community of Dieppe NB has it linked southeast New Brunswick to Nova Scotia prior to the completion of the new Trans-Canada Highway.

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