Tracadie

Tracadie takes its name from a Mi'kmaw word for an encampment. Mi'kmaq families camped here on the northeastern coast while fishing and hunting, among the rivers and sheltered waters opening toward the Gulf of St. Lawrence. After the British deportation of the Acadians in the eighteenth century, some displaced families sought new homes along these shores. In 1785 Michel Bastarache and his son-in-law Joseph Saulnier came from Memramcook and settled in the Tracadie country, followed by other families.