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It is not to be confused with the
Beaubassin East
Beaubassin East is a Canadian rural community in Westmorland County, New Brunswick. The French form of the name is Beaubassin-Est.
History
Incorporation
The rural community was incorporated on May 8, 1995 from the Local Service Districts of ...
in New Brunswick.''
The Kouchibouguac River is a river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
in eastern 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 ...
, Canada, which empties into the Northumberland Strait
The Northumberland Strait (French: ''détroit de Northumberland'') is a strait in the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in eastern Canada. The strait is formed by Prince Edward Island and the gulf's eastern, southern, and western sho ...
. It is 72 kilometres (44.7 mi) long.It is not to be confused with the
Kouchibouguacis River
The Kouchibouguacis River is a river in Saint-Louis Parish, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. It is a tributary of the Northumberland Strait. It is not to be confused with the Kouchibouguac River running parallel to this river, about to the no ...
running parallel to this river, about to the south.
This river flows through Kouchibouguac National Park
Kouchibouguac National Park () is a national park located on the east coast of New Brunswick in Kouchibouguac and was established in 1969 to preserve a section of the Canadian Maritime Plain region. The park includes barrier islands, sand dun ...
. The river's name means "river of the long tides" 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 northe ...
.
During the 19th century, the white pine
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forests of the area were logged to provide masts and booms for the ships of the Royal Navy
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. Ships were built at the mouth of this river to transport the logs to Britain
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.
See also
*List of rivers 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 ...
References
External links
* Rivers of New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-river-stub