| Official Name: | Lamèque |
| Pushpin Map: | New Brunswick |
| Pushpin Label: | Lamèque |
| Coordinates: | 47.7925°N -64.6532°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Brunswick |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Gloucester |
| Subdivision Type3: | Parish |
| Subdivision Name3: | Shippagan |
| Subdivision Type4: | Town |
| Subdivision Name4: | Île-de-Lamèque |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | 1790 |
| Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
| Established Date2: | November 6, 1966 |
| Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
| Established Date3: | September 1, 1982 |
| Area Land Km2: | 12.40 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 1,301 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 104.9 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change (2016–21) |
| Population Blank1: | 1.2% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 606 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Postal Code: | E8T |
| Area Code: | 506 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: |
Lamèque is a former town in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held town status prior to 2023 and is now part of the town of Île-de-Lamèque.
Of Amerindian rather than French origin, "Lamèque" comes from the Micmac Elmugwadasik, a descriptive reference to the fact that "the head of the tidal river is turned to one side". The name of the island approved by the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names in 1974, the result of a local petition replaced the earlier Shippegan.[2]
See also: History of New Brunswick and List of historic places in Gloucester County, New Brunswick. A Francophone community, it is situated on Lamèque Island, off the northeastern tip of the Acadian Peninsula. Lamèque has hosted an annual baroque music festival every summer since 1975.[3]
On 1 January 2023, Lamèque amalgamated with the village of Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël and annexed the local service districts making up the remainder of Lamèque Island to form the new town of Île-de-Lamèque.[4] [5] Lamèque's name remains in official use as a community.[6]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lamèque had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 12.4km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Lamèque, New Brunswick | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 1,360 | 2.3% | 99.27% | 10 | n/a% | 0.73% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 1,330 | 10.1% | 100.00% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 1,480 | 5.1% | 99.00% | 15 | 50.0% | 1.00% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 1,560 | n/a | 98.11% | 30 | n/a | 1.89% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | ||||||||
Lamèque's economy is tied to the fishing and peat industries.
The Lamèque Eco-Parc offers numerous flora and fauna features representative of the Acadian Peninsula.
See main article: List of people from Gloucester County, New Brunswick.