| Tracadie-Sheila | |
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| Panorama of Tracadie-Sheila | |
| Information | |
| Country |  Canada |
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| Region | Acadian Peninsula |
| Area | 24,65 km² |
| Population | 4 933 hab. (2011) |
| Density | 200,12 inhab./km² |
| Telephone prefix | 1-506 |
| Location | |
 47 ° 30 ′ 52 ″ N 64 ° 55 ′ 5 ″ W | |
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Tracadie-Sheila is a city Acadian from New Brunswick to Canada.
Understand
Tracadie-Sheila is a town located on the Acadian Peninsula in Glouchester County in North East New Brunswick.
Story
Since July 2014, the city is grouped within the regional municipality of Grand Tracadie-Sheila, the first municipality of its kind in New Brunswick, with 18 Local Service Districts (LSDs) as well as parts of two others. The city of Tracadie-Sheila was itself born from the merger of the city of Tracadie and the village of Sheila as well as from the annexation of certain neighboring unorganized territories in January 1992. So officially, today the city of Tracadie -Sheila is dissolved and instead forms two districts of Grand Tracadie-Sheila.
The city was famous for its lazaretto which welcomed patients with leprosy from all overNorth America until the beginning of the XXe century. The building no longer exists today, but a museum located at the Sainte-Famille academy tells the story.
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To speak
The main language of Tracadie-Sheila is French. In fact, according to the Official Languages Act from New Brunswick, the official language is French since less than 20% of the population speaks there English.
To see
- Holy Family Academy Convent Street – Colonial-style four-storey wooden building constructed between 1910 and 1912. Includes an exhibition on the leper colony. It is recognized as a provincial historic site.
- Church of Saint-Joseph and Saint-Jean-Baptiste Main Street – Catholic church in neo-Gothic style built from 1926 to 1949. In front of the church, there is a monument to the founding families installed in 1984. On the same site, there is a monument to Father Lafrance.
