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Inkerman, a small northern community, has been selected as the location for a warming centre on the Acadian Peninsula this winter. Last year, six beds were made available for homeless people at the Peninsula’s airport, near Caraquet.
Smaller shelter had been placed at a small airport last winter
Sam Farley · CBC News
· Posted: Nov 13, 2026 6:12 AM EST | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago
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Cédric Landry, director of community development at the Acadian Peninsula Regional Service Commission, pictured in the warming centre at the airport last winter. He hopes the new shelter would accommodate between 15 and 17 people. (Réal Fradette/Radio-Canada)
It isn’t just New Brunswick’s biggest cities that are seeing larger homeless populations.
Inkerman, a small northern community, has been selected as the location for a warming centre on the Acadian Peninsula this winter. Last year, six beds were made available for homeless people at the Peninsula’s airport, near Caraquet.
It was the first time such a shelter had been built in the area, but the new location chosen for this winter would more than double the capacity.
“It’s been selected mostly because it’s a central area of the Acadian Peninsula,” Cédric Landry,
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