Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Joseph de Tracadie National Historic Event
Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick
Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Joseph de Tracadie
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Address :
Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
1992-11-06
Other Name(s):
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Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Joseph de Tracadie
(Designation Name)
Importance:
Facilities in Tracadie (1849-1965) and Sheldrake Island (1844-94) served as a lazaretto
Plaque(s)
Existing plaque: Tracadie-Sheila, New Brunswick
For 121 years facilities in Tracadie (1849-1965) and Sheldrake Island ( 1844-1894) served as a lazaretto - the only institution of its kind in l9th-century North America. Originally unattended in wretched conditions, lepers, after 1868, received care from the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph. In 1896 the Hôtel-Dieu de Saint-Joseph de Tracadie, a general hospital, was erected here with an isolation wing for lepers. Destroyed by fire, it was replaced by a similar structure in 1946, which was demolished in 1991.