Nauwigewauk is a rural community in
Kings County Kings County or King's County may refer to:
Places Canada
*Kings County, New Brunswick
*Kings County, Nova Scotia
*Kings County, Prince Edward Island
** King's County (electoral district), abolished in 1892
Ireland
* County Offaly, formerly call ...
,
New Brunswick
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, Canada. It is located near the communities of
Quispamsis and
Lakeside
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* Lakeside International Raceway, Pine Rivers, Quee ...
at the mouth of the
Hammond River, and borders the town of
Hampton. The people of Nauwigewauk are sometimes locally known as Nauwigewaukies.
Name
Nauwigewauk was named in 1858 by the commissioners of the
European and North American Railway. The names derives from ''Nuhwig'ewauk'', the
Maliseet
The Wəlastəkwewiyik, or Maliseet (, also spelled Malecite), are an Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy. They are the indigenous people of the Wolastoq ( Saint John River) valley and its tributaries. Their territory ...
name for the Hammond River, possibly meaning "slow current."
History
Nauwigewauk was a station on the European and North American Railway and, later, on the
Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
CN i ...
. As of 2015, the CNR's single-track Sussex Subdivision still runs through the community to provide rail service connecting the Port of Saint John to the CN main line at Moncton. The town's station is defunct. The community had a post office from c. 1885 until 1969.
In 1898, the town had a population of 150, one post office, one store, and two churches.
Demographics
Notable person
*
Anna Ruth Lang, a recipient of the Canadian
Cross of Valour.
See also
*
List of communities in New Brunswick
This is a list of communities in New Brunswick, a province in Canada. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as either an incorporated municipality, an Indian reserve, or an unincorporated community inside or outside a municipalit ...
References
Communities in Kings County, New Brunswick
Designated places in New Brunswick
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