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Carleton-sur-Mer

Carleton-sur-Mer
City
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Location within Avignon RCM
Location within Avignon RCM
Carleton-sur-Mer is located in Eastern Quebec
Carleton-sur-Mer
Carleton-sur-Mer
Location in eastern Quebec
Coordinates: 48°06′N 66°08′W / 48.100°N 66.133°W / 48.100; -66.133Coordinates: 48°06′N 66°08′W / 48.100°N 66.133°W / 48.100; -66.133
Country  Canada
Province  Quebec
Region Gaspésie–
Îles-de-la-Madeleine
RCM Avignon
Settled 1756
Constituted October 4, 2000
Government
 • Mayor Denis Henry
 • Federal riding Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia
 • Prov. riding Bonaventure
Area
 • Total 244.30 km2 (94.32 sq mi)
 • Land 221.38 km2 (85.48 sq mi)
Population (2011)
 • Total 3,991
 • Density 18.0/km2 (47/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011 Decrease 2.1%
 • Dwellings 2,120
Time zone EST (UTC−5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s) G0C 1J0
Area code(s) 418 and 581
Highways Route 132
Website www.carletonsurmer.com

Carleton-sur-Mer is the fifth largest town of the Gaspésie's south shore, in southeastern Quebec, Canada, located on Route 132, along the Baie des Chaleurs.

The town's territory includes the communities of Biron, Caps-de-Maria, Carleton, Robitaille, and Saint-Omer.

Around 1756, 7 families of exiled Acadians arrived in Tracadigash from Bonaventure and Restigouche following their deportation from Beaubassin, Nova-Scotia, in 1755. Charles Dugas and Benjamin LeBlanc (both from Grand Pré) were the original founders. In 1772 Abbé Joseph-Mathurin Bourg, first accredited Acadien priest, arrived from Quebec City. He conducted the very first census of Tragadigash (recensement Tracadigache 1777) where he listed the following family names: Allard, Allain, Arseneau, Aubertin, Barriot, Bergeron, Berthelot, Boudreau, Bujold, Comeau, Cormier, Dugas, Francis, Landry, Leblanc, Poirier, Richard; totalling 177 persons. A later three page correspondence to the governor, dated 7 April 1784, stated described land use "Endorsed: A list of the inhabitants of Tracadigache and the quantity of land each inhabitant has improved" which averaged 3 to 12 arpents per man.

In 1787, American Loyalists found their way to Tracadigash which eventually resulted in the parish changing its name from Saint-Joseph de Tracadièche (Tracadièche is the French spelling of Tragadigash) to Saint-Joseph de Carleton in honour of General Guy Carleton.

On October 4, 2000, the municipalities of Carleton and Saint-Omer were reunited after 100 years of separation and the new town thus formed was called Carleton–Saint-Omer.

On May 7, 2005, the name was officially changed to Carleton-sur-Mer.

After the arrival of the first Acadians in 1756, the territory of Saint-Omer was included in the Parish of Saint Joseph de Tracadièche and had a common history with Carleton. As more of the population shifted west, numbers eventually justified creating a new parish, and in 1899 the Parish of Saint-Omer came to be, approved by the government in 1902.


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