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The City of Dieppe is encouraging people to mark their home as accessible on a new online, interactive map, so families who have children with disabilities can better plan their Halloween routes.
Map identifies homes with no physical barriers, allergy-friendly treats
Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 29, 2025 1:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago
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On Dieppe’s Halloween map, the red pumpkins represent accessible homes for people with mobility disabilities, the green ones represent allergy-friendly homes, and the pink ones mean the home is both. (City of Dieppe)
The City of Dieppe is striving to make trick-or-treating a little more accessible for young witches, ghosts and pumpkins with disabilities this Halloween.
The city is encouraging people to mark their homes as accessible on an online, interactive map, so families who have children with disabilities can better plan their Halloween routes.
Denis LeBlanc, the municipality’s community development director, said the initiative started last year, taking inspiration from an idea in Ontario, where a city chose one neighbourhood of around 14 homes where every house was accessible for all.
“This year, we decided to grow it larger and offer it to the whole community,” he said.
Denis LeBlanc, Dieppe’s community development director, said that making a home more accessible to kids with mobility disabilities can simply mean bringing the treats closer to the street, » Read More
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