Editing Dieppe, New Brunswick (section)

=== From municipality to town to city ===
Dieppe was known as Upper Village after the Expulsion and was settled by the [[Surette (surname)|Surette]], [[Maillet (disambiguation)|Maillet]], and [[Thibodeau (surname)|Thibodeau]] families, while [[Chartersville, New Brunswick|Chartersville]] was called Leblanc's Village and also included members of the Boudreau's clan. Prior to 1800, Pierre Bourgeois had established himself on the (''Ruisseau des Renards'') Fox Creek salt marsh. Agriculture, forestry and some fishing sustained these Acadian families up until the mid-1800s, when shipbuilding and railways created employment opportunities for Acadians around the Moncton area. After a bridge was completed in 1867 at the mouth of Hall's Creek (''Nacadie'' during the French settlement at ''Le Coude''), a road was constructed that link the incorporated Town of Moncton's Westmorland Road (Main Street) to the (French Village) Dieppe area. This road went through farmland that had belong to the Leger family and intersected the old road (Acadie Avenue) that had taken travellers up and around Hall's Creek to the community of Lewisville to get to Moncton. By 1900, the little area around the intersection became known as [[Leger's Corner, New Brunswick|Léger's Corner]], and with the increasing traffic from the bridge, merchants became attracted to the corner and soon set up shops and services around the intersection. Prior to the First World War, a small residential development was erected, and the community continue to grow until the Second World War. Then a population explosion occurred. Léger's Corner received the largest influx of military personnel in southeastern New Brunswick. Ten thousand airmen (due to the airport) and their support staff arrived overnight in 1940, and soon temporary warehouses and housing were erected. When Léger's Corner became incorporated as a municipal village in 1946,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Machum |first1=Lloyd A |title=A History of Moncton: Town and city 1885-1965 |date=1965 |publisher=Moncton Publishing Company|location=Moncton|page=402}}</ref> the community was renamed '''Dieppe''', after a port in France on the English Channel, to honour the 913 Canadian servicemen who took part in the Dieppe Raid, the bloody landing by Allied soldiers, on August 19, 1942, during the [[Second World War]]. Then, part of Lakeburn was annexed in 1946 and Dieppe-East in 1948. A referendum (262 for, 232 against)<ref>{{cite web |title=Dieppe, "petite ville" depuis déja 30 ans |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=UY3hNwcQ290C&dat=19820521&printsec=frontpage&hl=fr |work=L'Evangéline |date=May 21, 1982}}</ref> marginally favoured the village to incorporate as the Town of Dieppe in 1952. At that time, Dieppe had over 3,000 inhabitants within its boundaries. Growth continued unabated throughout the 1950s and 1960s as Dieppe annexed the villages of Saint-Anselme and Chartersville and the local service districts of Dover-Fox Creek (Upper Dover), the parish of Dorchester (part), and the parish of Moncton (part), the latter in 1973. With its rural expansion came a growth in population exceeding 8,500 in the 1981 census. During the 1980s and early 1990s, the Town of Dieppe, like the rest of the region, went through an economic downfall which limited its growth in population. By 2001, the Greater Moncton area and Dieppe's economy flourished and with it came a population increment of nearly 15,000 in 2001 to over 23,000 in 2011. To preserve its heritage, culture and identity as a community in Southern New Brunswick, Dieppe opted to incorporate itself as a city on January 1, 2003. At that time it became New Brunswick's eighth incorporated city.

Maps of Dieppe from the 1960s show Champlain Street below Acadie Avenue as Main Street and above the intersection as Airport Road.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mFfd8fh_zSQC&pg=PA61 "McCully's New Brunswick Historic Aerial Photographs 1931-1939"]. Dan Soucoup/ Richard Thorne McCully, 2005.</ref>