French is part of daily life in Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël: 98.2% of residents have French as their first official language. Those numbers say a lot about what a Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël business website needs to do. Our CA$119 plan covers the website or online store, your domain, email and hosting, ready within 3 business days on a temporary link.
No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website.
The local picture in Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël
A smaller population (820 in 2021) means every repeat customer counts. Keeping your hours, prices and services up to date online saves them a phone call and keeps you in front of people driving in from nearby.
Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël in numbers
The census counted 395 households in Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, and 86.1% of them own their home. The median age is 56.8, compared with 46.8 for New Brunswick. The median household income in Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël was $58,800 in 2020, below the New Brunswick median of $70,000, so clear prices matter.
More 2021 Census figures for Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël
- Couples with children, share of households: 16.5%
- Private dwellings: 433
- Residents aged 85 and over: 3.0%
- Density: 51.8 people per km²
- Children under 5: 2.4%
- Share of residents who are immigrants: 1.3%
Side by side with New Brunswick
Commuters who drive: 95.9% in Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, against 92.0% across New Brunswick. On home ownership, Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël (86.1%) compares with 73.0% for the province as a whole. The share of households that rent is 13.9% in Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël and 26.2% in New Brunswick.
Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël has 59 fewer residents than in 2016, a change of 6.7%. Across New Brunswick, the population grew 3.8% over the same period.
The people a Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël website talks to
Most workers (95.9%) commute by car, truck or van. A map and a note about parking answer the first question many drivers have.
92.4% of households live in single-detached houses. Home services and trades should show photos of finished jobs.
Most people in Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël (90.8%) were born in New Brunswick. A short story about the business builds trust quickly.
Seniors make up 29.9% of the population of Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël. Your hours and address should be right at the top of the page.
Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël businesses and what their websites need
Residents of Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël work mainly in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (24.5%), manufacturing (17.0%) and health care and social assistance (13.2%); those are the customers and the competitors of a local business.
Around Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël
Within a short drive of Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël: Lamèque (5.2 km, pop. 1,301), Le Goulet (12 km, pop. 749), Shippagan (12 km, pop. 4,781), Shippagan Town (12 km, pop. 2,672) and Bas-Caraquet (19 km, pop. 1,311). Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël is part of Gloucester County. A website can name each place you serve, from Lamèque to Le Goulet.
Next to Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, Lamèque counted 1,301 people in 2021, with a median household income of $61,600. In Lamèque, 75.0% of households own their home; in Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, 86.1%.
Running a business website from Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël: the rules
A website does not need a special licence, but the business behind it follows the usual rules. A few that come up often:
- Consent is at the heart of Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL): express consent means someone has agreed, verbally or in writing, to receive a commercial electronic message from you, and senders should be ready to provide proof of that consent. Canada’s anti-spam legislation
- Under Canadian competition law, it is against the law to make materially false or misleading representations to promote a product, service or business interest, and the law also prohibits the unauthorized use or distortion of tests and testimonials. Competition Bureau
Details vary by business, so treat this as general information, not legal advice, and check the official pages linked above.
Web design for Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, handled online
Aria has been building business websites and online shops since 2008, and every project runs online. From Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, the price is the same: one monthly fee of CA$119, and email is how we talk.
- Start with the online sign-up (about 5 minutes) and tell us what the business does.
- Within 3 business days, a temporary link shows you the full website, with your colours and logo.
- Once you approve it, the first monthly fee is issued and the website goes live on your domain, together with your business email.
Hosting, the SSL certificate, daily backups and security updates stay with us, and content changes you email in are included.
- A business website or an online store, for the same monthly fee
- Your own domain: bring the one you have, or we help you pick one
- Email on your domain: unlimited accounts, 5 GB in total, webmail and spam filtering
- Hosting, an SSL certificate and a daily backup
- Text, photo and price updates whenever you email us
- Ready within 3 business days on a temporary link
Questions about a website for your Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël business
Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël is small. Do I really need a website?
Your market is bigger than the village. People across Gloucester County look up services online, and a clear website brings them to you.
Many of my customers speak French. What can the site say?
You can say which languages your team speaks, on every page if you like. Send us the wording and we add it.
What do I need to send?
Your logo, a few photos of your work or premises and a short description of what you offer, all by email. We build the pages and you approve every one.
Is there a minimum contract?
You can stop the service whenever you need to; there is no setup fee and no long-term commitment.
What is the website built on?
Your website runs on the Aria Platform, built on WordPress and looked after by our team: hosting, SSL, daily backups and security updates included.
Does the plan include business email?
As many addresses on your domain as you need, sharing 5 GB in total, with webmail and spam filtering.
Do I need a domain already?
If you have one, keep it: we point it to the website. If not, say so in the sign-up and we sort out the options with you by email.
Do I pay anything to get started?
No. No setup fee: you only pay the CA$119 monthly fee after you approve your website. No long-term contract. You can stop the service whenever you need to.
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- Population, dwellings, land area, age, households, income, housing, language, place of birth, commuting, work and education: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (tables 98-10-0002, 98-10-0022, 98-10-0057, 98-10-0193, 98-10-0240, 98-10-0307, 98-10-0400, 98-10-0456 and 98-10-0458). Reproduced and distributed on an 'as is' basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
- Business counts for Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël: Statistics Canada, Canadian Business Counts with employees, June 2026 (tables 33-10-1176 and 33-10-1174).
- Where Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël and its neighbours are: Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Geographical Names Database; contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- Localities of Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël: Statistics Canada, Standard Geographical Classification 2021.
- Numbers come from the official sources above and are updated when new releases come out; distances are measured in a straight line.