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 ...

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. 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

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, 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

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built its Halifax-

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main line through the community in 1875. Since 1972 A high-voltage converter station The

Eel River Converter Station The Eel River Converter Station is a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station in Eel River Crossing, New Brunswick, Canada; it is the first operative HVDC station in the world equipped with thyristors. The Eel River Converter Station ...

is located in river crossing

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, 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 trendStatistics Canada:

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census * 2011 population revised due to boundary changes. Mother tongue (2016)

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Eel River Crossing

{{Coord, 48, 00, 45, N, 66, 25, 15, W, name=Eel River Crossing, New Brunswick, display=title, region:CA-NB_type:city_scale:100000 Communities in Restigouche County, New Brunswick Villages in New Brunswick

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