Eel River Crossing (2016 population: 1,953
) is a Canadian village in
Restigouche County
Restigouche County (2016 population 30,955) is located in north-central New Brunswick, Canada. The county is named for the Restigouche River which flows through the county and is famous for its salmon pools, which have attracted wealthy American ...
,
New Brunswick
New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and ...
.
The village branded itself Eel River Dundee in 2018 but the legal name remains Eel River Crossing.
Eel River (Chaleur Bay) A descriptive derived from the French designation Anguille. Anse a l'Anguille changed to Eel River Cove by petition on October 14, 1950.
In
Mi'kmaq
The Mi'kmaq (also ''Mi'gmaq'', ''Lnu'', ''Miꞌkmaw'' or ''Miꞌgmaw''; ; ) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands, indigenous to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as the nort ...
, Eel River was known as ''Okpĕgŭnchĭk'' which meant "discoloured foam on the water".
On 1 January 2023, Eel River Crossing will become part of the new village of Bois-Joli.
History
Its name usually being simplified to Eel River, the village is situated on the river of that name. The word "Crossing" was added to the name after the
Intercolonial Railway
The Intercolonial Railway of Canada , also referred to as the Intercolonial Railway (ICR), was a historic Canadian railway that operated from 1872 to 1918, when it became part of Canadian National Railways. As the railway was also completely o ...
built its
Halifax-
Rivière-du-Loup
Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska. Its one of ...
main line through the community in 1875. Since 1972 A high-voltage converter station The
Eel River Converter Station is located in river crossing
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada, Eel River Crossing had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Population trend
[Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census]
* 2011 population revised due to boundary changes.
Mother tongue (2016)
Notable people
See also
*
List of communities in New Brunswick
References
External links
Eel River Crossing
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Communities in Restigouche County, New Brunswick
Villages in New Brunswick