Site du Collège de Caraquet, Educational heritage site in Caraquet, Canada

The Site du Collège de Caraquet marks the spot where the Collège Sacré-Cœur was built starting in 1894 and opened on 9 January 1899. The building was three storeys tall, with its second floor begun in 1895 and its roof started in 1897. A memorial on the site includes a bust of Saint Jean-Eudes on a stone base.

Construction began in spring 1894 on land bought from André Haché, opposite the Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens church. The priest Joseph-Théophile Allard kept the building's purpose secret, and it opened on 9 January 1899 with seventeen students. A fire in 1915 destroyed it, and it was rebuilt in Bathurst.

The college's name was chosen by Father Ange Le Doré in autumn 1899. Nuns of the Congrégation des Saints-Cœurs de Jésus et Marie came from Paramé, in France, that same autumn and took over the kitchen, laundry and general upkeep, replacing two women from Shippagan. The refectory hall was finished in October, yet the building was already too small for its thirty students.

The memorial stands in Caraquet, across from the Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens church, on the land André Haché sold for the college in 1893. The building faced the road, with Haché's stable moved to the north side near the convent. Look for the stone base of the original foundations beneath the bust of Saint Jean-Eudes.

The stone foundation is the only surviving original element and tells a story of resilience after disaster. These remains were overlooked for decades before being recognized as a memorial.