| Official Name: | Cocagne |
| Pushpin Map: | New Brunswick |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Cocagne in New Brunswick |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Brunswick |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Kent County |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | Beausoleil |
| Leader Title: | MP |
| Leader Title2: | Provincial Representative |
| Leader Name: | Dominic LeBlanc (L) |
| Leader Name2: | Benoît Bourque (L) |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1767 |
| Area Land Km2: | 69.23 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 2,757 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Density Km2: | 39.8 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 4.1% |
| Timezone: | Atlantic (AST) |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Coordinates: | 46.3406°N -64.62°W |
| Elevation Min M: | 0 |
| Module: |
Cocagne is a Canadian community, formerly part of an eponymous local service district (LSD) and later incorporated rural community, in Kent County, New Brunswick. It is now part of the rural community of Beausoleil.
See also: History of New Brunswick and List of historic places in Kent County, New Brunswick. It was named after Cockaigne, a mythical paradise in medieval French literature.[4] It is located at the mouth of the Cocagne River on the Northumberland Strait.
William Francis Ganong identified the Mi'kmaq name as Wijulmacadie, referring to a plant found along the river.In 1866 Cocagne was a farming community with about 65 families: in 1871 the community and surrounding district had a population of 900: in 1898 Cocagne was a sub-port of entry with a population of 250. A post office branch has been located here since 1837.[5]
On 1 January 2023, the rural community of Cocagne amalgamated with all or part of six LSDs to form the new rural community of Beausoleil.[6] [7] The community's name remains in official use, as do those of other communities within the former rural community.[8]
The community is located around the mouth of the Cocagne River in Cocagne Bay at the crossroads of Route 535 and Route 134. Cocagne is also located on the northern terminus of Route 530
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cocagne had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 69.23km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
See main article: List of people from Kent County, New Brunswick.