The place is named after the Battle of Inkerman in the Crimean War.[1] The area was once served by the Caraquet and Gulf Shore Railway, a section of which ran between Tracadie and Shippagan.[2] In 2017, a 500 metre former railway bridge, then being used as part of the Sentier NB Trail, was destroyed by fire.[3] In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Inkerman had a population of 712 living in 321 of its 344 total private dwellings, a change of 10.9% from its 2016 population of 642.This New Brunswick location article is a stub.