Route 15 is 79 kilometres (49 mi) long and is in the southeastern corner of the province of New Brunswick . Starting at the north end of the Petitcodiac River Causeway , it loops around the city of Moncton on Wheeler Boulevard, then turns northeast from Dieppe to Shediac . From there, it turns east and bypasses Cap-Pelé crossing the Scoudouc River , then southeast to meet the Trans-Canada Highway at Port Elgin . The highway is a divided freeway from Moncton to just east of Shediac, where it remains a controlled-access highway until east of Cap-Pele.
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24-479: A traffic circle called the "Port Elgin Rotary" was built at the intersection between Route 16 and Route 15 and Route 970 . The largest employer in the village is Atlantic Windows, which employs 200 persons year-round. The second largest employer is Westford Nursing Home, which has about 30 full and part-time staff and provides permanent care facility for 29 persons as well as one relief-care bed. The village has
36-556: A land area of 2.65 km (1.02 sq mi), it had a population density of 143.8/km (372.4/sq mi) in 2021. New Brunswick Route 15 Route 15 only extended from Shediac to Strait Shores until the early 1970s, when the Shediac Four-Lane Highway (the first rural expressway in New Brunswick) was built from Dieppe to Shediac. Its construction was controversial, with critics alleging that it
48-536: A sheltered harbour at the mouth of the Gaspereau River. The New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Railway was built through the village in the early 1880s, opening on September 9, 1886, to connect the Intercolonial Railway at Sackville with the seasonal port of Cape Tormentine which supported the winter iceboat service to Prince Edward Island ; in 1917 this port became a terminal for
60-625: A single school, Port Elgin Regional School , which provides public schooling for grades K-8; this school district encompasses all surrounding areas running as far east as Cape Tormentine , north to Robichaud and west to Jolicure . The village also had its own high school but this was closed in the 1990s and high school students are now bused to Tantramar Regional High School in Sackville . On 1 January 2023, Port Elgin amalgamated with all or part of six local service districts to form
72-705: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Port Elgin, New Brunswick Port Elgin is a former Canadian village in Westmorland County , New Brunswick . It is located near the Nova Scotia border at the mouth of the Gaspereaux River where it empties into the Northumberland Strait 's Baie Verte and is now part of the rural community of Strait Shores . The village
84-430: Is thought to be in the area of $ 900,000. A second coastal flooding event occurred on December 21, 2010, when another storm surge from a nor'easter flooded sections of the village and surrounding area. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Port Elgin had a population of 381 living in 161 of its 170 total private dwellings, a change of -6.6% from its 2016 population of 408 . With
96-422: The new incorporated rural community of Strait Shores . The community's name remains in official use. On January 2, 2010, the village experienced coastal flooding as a result of a storm surge from a nor'easter lifted cottages off their foundations and led to considerable damage to homes, forcing the declaration of a state of emergency in the village and surrounding area. The damage incurred by this storm
108-547: The year-round ferry service to P.E.I. Automobile traffic increased through the village in the 1920s after the P.E.I. ferries began to carry road vehicles. The Baie Verte Road ran west of the village through Baie Verte as "Main Street" and the Immigrant Road ran east of the village. In the 1960s a bypass for Route 16 as a result of Trans-Canada Highway project funding was constructed around Baie Verte and Port Elgin;
120-737: Was founded by Acadians in 1690, but abandoned after the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. The earthworks of Fort Gaspareaux , a French military fortification from the Seven Years' War are located at the mouth of the river immediately east of the village. Following the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War , British Loyalists resettled in the area which was named Gaspareaux Town . Gaspareaux Town
132-471: Was only built to give Moncton-area politicians better access to their summer cottages in the Shediac area . A two-lane bypass of Shediac itself was built shortly afterward. The Wheeler Boulevard was developed and constructed through the 1970s and 1980s, and was fully complete by 1989. A two-lane bypass of Cap-Pele opened to traffic in 1998. In 2012, a section of this highway between Moncton and Shediac
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#1732772000953144-402: Was renamed Port Elgin in 1847 in honour of Lord Elgin . The community was incorporated as a village in 1922, the first community in the province to do so. Throughout the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, Port Elgin experienced modest industrialization with a handful of small factories, tanneries, and sawmills. The village also saw some shipping activity with several wharves on
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