The Jemseg River is a short river in the
Canadian
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province of
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 ...
which drains
Grand Lake into the
Saint John River.
The river is fairly slow-flowing, with approximately 5 kilometres of meander length. It passes through a
savannah-type environment and is augmented by the Grand Lake Meadows. The river is relatively deep, and its main channel hosted regular tug-barge traffic until the late 1990s, the last commercial shipping on the Saint John River system.
The river begins at the southern end of Grand Lake at the community of
Jemseg, where it is bridged by
Route 2, the
Trans-Canada Highway
The Trans-Canada Highway (French: ; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on ...
, using the new Jemseg River High Level Crossing twin bridges which opened in October 2002. These supplanted the original 1960s-era Jemseg River Bridge, which carried the Trans-Canada Highway on its original alignment, since renumbered to
Route 105.
The river drains into the Saint John River at the community of
Lower Jemseg, opposite the village of
Gagetown.
See also
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List of bodies of water of New Brunswick
This is a List of bodies of water in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, including waterfalls.
New Brunswick receives precipitation year-round, which feeds numerous streams and rivers. There are two main discharge basins: the Gulf of Saint La ...
Rivers of New Brunswick
Landforms of Queens County, New Brunswick
Tributaries of the Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)
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