Shepody (formerly Chipoudy) is a small

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in Southeastern

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on Route 114. It was founded as an Acadian village in 1698 and destroyed in 1755. The current settlement has a

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of approximately 20, and is located just off the

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of Shepody Bay.

History

By 1701, poitevin Pierre Thibaudeau and members of his family (four sons and a friend) moved from Port Royal to Shepody, inaugurating another cluster of Acadian settlements there and on the

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. After that, his friend,

Guillaume Blanchard Guillaume Blanchard (1650 – 1716) was an early settler at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia at a site on the Petitcodiac River The Petitcodiac River is a river in south-eastern New Brunswick, Canada. Referred to as the "chocolate river" by loc ...

and his two sons, founded and established themselves in Petitcodiac. In August 1755,

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Lieutenant Colonel

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sent Captain Sylvanus Cobb to deport the population of Chipoudy. The English soldiers were sent to

Beaubassin Beaubassin was an important Acadian village and trading centre on the Isthmus of Chignecto in what is now Nova Scotia, Canada. The area was a significant place in the geopolitical struggle between the British and French empires. It was establ ...

, Petitcodiac, Chipoudy, and

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to take the

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prisoners. However, through guidance by the local missionary, Father LeGuerne, the Acadians hid in the woods. Then, on 26 August, Lieutenant Boishébert of Miramichi and 125 soldiers and a group of Micmacs, surprised 200 Englishmen, under the command of Major

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. The English had set fire to the church of Chipoudy and 181 homes, as well as 250 houses in Petitcodiac. Boishébert gave the order to attack at the moment that the English were setting fire to the church of Petitcodiac. After three hours of fierce fighting, the English retreated, leaving behind 50 dead, and around 60 wounded. It was thus that 200 families were able to escape the deportation.ARSENAULT, Bona, Histoire des Acadiens, Bibliothèque nationale du Québec. 1978. Lemaéac p. 180

Geography

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. It was part of most of the region of ''Trois-Rivières''. The main water supply is the Chipoudy river. 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

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