About

Tracy is a Canadian village in Sunbury County, New Brunswick at Route 101 and the eastern terminus of Route 645.  The village is situated on the North Oromocto River, approximately 40 km south of Fredericton.

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From the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick

Located 5.5 km WNW of Fredericton Junction and 5.71 km SSW of Tracyville: Gladstone Parish, Sunbury County: Jeremiah Tracy (1744-1812) was an early settler from Maine: his descendants operated mills here: included Klondike Settlement, which was named for a river and district in the Yukon where gold was discovered in 1896: also included North Branch: PO 1867-1871: in 1866 North Branch was a farming community with about 8 families, including 5 Alexander families: PO Tracey Station 1871-1925: in 1866 it was a farming settlement with approximately 80 resident families including 8 Boone, 7 Harris, 17 Tracy and 6 Webb families: in 1898 Tracy was a flag station on the Canadian Pacific Railway with 1 post office, 2 stores, 1 church and a population of 100: PO Tracy from 1925 with H.E. Tracey as first postmaster: Tracy was incorporated as a village in 1966.

 

Demographics:

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Tracy had a population of 610 living in 251 of its 258 total private dwellings, a change of 0.3% from its 2016 population of 608. With a land area of 29.44 km2 (11.37 sq mi), it had a population density of 20.7/km2 (53.7/sq mi) in 2021.