Dieppe | |||
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City of Dieppe Ville de Dieppe |
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Dieppe Watertower (51 metres) Saint-Anselme
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Motto: "Constantia et virtute" (Latin) "By constancy and virtue" |
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Location of Dieppe in New Brunswick | |||
Coordinates: 46°05′56″N 64°43′27″W / 46.098889°N 64.724167°W | |||
Country | Canada | ||
Province | New Brunswick | ||
County | Westmorland | ||
Parish | Moncton | ||
City | January 1, 2003 | ||
Town | January 1, 1952 | ||
Incorporated village | February 8, 1946 | ||
Founded | 1730 | ||
Government | |||
• Type | Dieppe City Council | ||
• Mayor | Yvon Lapierre | ||
• MPs | Ginette Petitpas Taylor | ||
• MLAs | Roger Melanson (Dieppe) | ||
Area | |||
• City | 54.11 km2 (19.25 sq mi) | ||
• Urban | 98.388 km2 (37.988 sq mi) | ||
• Metro | 117.309 km2 (45.293 sq mi) | ||
Highest elevation | 45 m (148 ft) | ||
Lowest elevation | 5 m (16 ft) | ||
Population (2016) | |||
• City | 25,384 | ||
• Density | 299.9/km2 (776.7/sq mi) | ||
• Urban | 107,068 | ||
• Metro | 146,073(Q32,016) | ||
Time zone | AST (UTC-4) | ||
• Summer (DST) | ADT (UTC-3) | ||
Postal code(s) | E1A | ||
Area code(s) | 506 | ||
NTS Map | 021I02 | ||
GNBC Code | DADHJ | ||
Highways |
Route 2 (TCH) Route 11 Route 15 Route 106 Route 132 Route 925 |
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Website | www.dieppe.ca |
Dieppe is a city in the Canadian maritime province of New Brunswick. Statistics Canada counted the population at 25,384 in 2016, making it the fourth largest city in the province.
Dieppe's history and identity goes back to the eighteenth century. It was first incorporated as a town in 1952 and designated as a city in 2003. Its namesake comes from a commune in the Seine-Maritime department, a port on the English Channel, in France and was adopted by the citizens of the area in 1946 to commemorate the Second World War's Operation Jubilee, the Dieppe Raid of 1942.It is officially a francophone city; French is the native language of 73.9% of the population. A majority of the population reports being bilingual, speaking both French and English. Residents generally speak French with a regional accent (colloquially called "Chiac") which is unique to southeastern New Brunswick. A large majority of Dieppe’s population were in favour of the by-law regulating the use of external commercial signs in both official languages, which is a first for the province of New Brunswick. Dieppe is the largest predominantly francophone city in Canada outside Québec; while there are other municipalities with greater total numbers of francophones, they constitute a minority of the population in those cities. Dieppe was one of the co-hosts of the first Congrès Mondial Acadien (Acadian World Congress) which was held in the Moncton region in 1994.
Dieppe is part of the census metropolitan area of Moncton, which is New Brunswick's most populous city at 144,810 according to Statistics Canada in 2016.
Federal and provincial representatives
Provincial electoral districts Members of the 58th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly (2014), the governing house of the province of New Brunswick.
Federal electoral districts Members of the 42nd Parliament of Canada (2015). A section of southeast Dieppe is in the Beauséjour riding.
Dieppe is located on the Petitcodiac River. It forms the southeastern part of the Greater Moncton Area, which also includes the city of Moncton, the town of Riverview, Moncton Parish, Memramcook, Coverdale, and Salisbury.