| Official Name: | Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël |
| Other Name: | Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël |
| Pushpin Map: | New Brunswick |
| Pushpin Label: | Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël |
| 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: | Incorporated |
| Established Date: | May 12, 1986 |
| Area Land Km2: | 15.84 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 820 |
| Population Density Km2: | 51.8 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change (2016–21) |
| Population Blank1: | 6.7% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 433 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Coordinates: | 47.7833°N -98°W |
| Postal Code: | E8T |
| Area Code: | 506 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël (unofficially Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël) is a former village in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023 and is now part of the town of Île-de-Lamèque.
Located on Lamèque Island, the village was formed by the incorporation of most of the local service district (LSD) of St. Raphael sur-Mer and a small part of the neighbouring LSD of Haut-Lamèque.[2] Contrary to frequent citation, it was not formed by an amalgamation involving a village named Sainte-Marie.
See also: History of New Brunswick and List of historic places in Gloucester County, New Brunswick.
In May 1971, an anxious Acadian fishing population demanded a public hearing into the safety of the Marc Guylaine, and 400 people met at the Saint-Raphaël community centre where an "action group" was commissioned to study the issue. Ultimately the last of the "cursed" sister ships was found to be unseaworthy.[3]
On 1 January 2023, Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël amalgamated with the town of Lamèque and all or part of ten local service districts to form the new town of Île-de-Lamèque.[4] [5] The community's name remains in official use.[6]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 15.84km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, New Brunswick | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 940 | 3.1% | 97.92% | 15 | 25.0% | 1.56% | 5 | n/a% | 0.52% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 970 | 13.8% | 97.98% | 20 | 100.0% | 2.02% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 1,125 | 4.3% | 99.12% | 10 | 0.0% | 0.88% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 1,175 | n/a | 98.33% | 10 | n/a | 0.84% | 10 | n/a | 0.84% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | ||||||||
See main article: List of people from Gloucester County, New Brunswick.