| New Carlisle | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Flag Size: | 120x80px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Eastern Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in eastern Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 48.0167°N -85°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Name2: | Gaspésie– Îles-de-la-Madeleine |
| Subdivision Name3: | Bonaventure |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1784 |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | February 1, 1877 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Daniel Thibault |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Gaspésie— Îles-de-la-Madeleine |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Bonaventure |
| Area Total Km2: | 68.09 |
| Area Land Km2: | 67.99 |
| Elevation M: | 45.00 |
| Population Total: | 1336 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 19.6 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop (2016-21) |
| Population Blank1: | 3.7% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 668 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | G0C 1Z0 |
| Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
New Carlisle is a town in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of Quebec, Canada. It best known as the boyhood home of René Lévesque although he was born in Campbellton, New Brunswick. Its population is approximately 1,336, approximately two-thirds of whom are anglophone and the remainder francophone. New Carlisle is located on the Baie des Chaleurs.
New Carlisle is the seat of Bonaventure Regional County Municipality, the judicial district of Bonaventure,[2] and the regional base for the Ministry of Transports Quebec, which has an operations centre on the outskirts of town. New Carlisle has a post office, primary and high schools, five different churches and many services. Via Rail mothballed its operations between Matapédia and New Carlisle sometime around 2010.
Originally a Mi'kmaq site called Antagoetjoitog, meaning "at the Black's", the site of the town was selected in 1784 by the Lieutenant-Governor of the jurisdictional District of Gaspe, Nicholas Cox. The town as is thought to have been named after Cox's home town, possibly Carlisle in England. Soon after the name was changed from "Carlisle" to "New Carlisle". The original settlers of 1784 were discharged soldiers of British Army regiments and Loyalists claimants. In 1842, the geographic Cox Township was proclaimed. It was also known as Petit-Paspébiac in the 19th century.
The area was first incorporated as the Township Municipality of Cox in 1845, dissolved in 1847, but reestablished again in 1855. On February 1, 1877, the Township Municipality of Cox was dissolved and divided into the Municipalities of New Carlisle and Paspébiac.[3]
The town was the scene of the capture of German spy Werner von Janowski, who was dropped from a nearby U-boat in November, 1942.[4]
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