Nauwigewauk is a rural community in Kings County,

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, Canada. It is located near the communities of

Quispamsis Quispamsis (, sometimes shortened to ) is a Kings County suburb of Saint John, New Brunswick, located to the northeast in the lower Kennebecasis River valley. Its population was 18,768 as of the 2021 census. History The original inhabita ...

and

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at the mouth of the

Hammond River The Hammond River is a tributary of the Kennebecasis River in New Brunswick, Canada. It runs approximately in southern Kings County along the border of Saint John County. It rises in the Caledonia Highlands near the rural community of Hammondva ...

, and borders the town of

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. 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 European and North American Railway (E&NA) is the name for three historic Canadian and American railways which were built in New Brunswick and Maine. The idea of the E&NA as a single system was conceived at a railway conference in Portland, M ...

. 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

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. 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 Anna Ruth Lang is a recipient of the Canadian Cross of Valour. On the ninth of September 1980 Anna Lang rescued two car passengers, named Lana and her four-year-old son, Jaye Walsh. At the entry of the Hammond River bridge a gasoline truck hit Mr ...

, a recipient of the Canadian Cross of Valour.

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Communities in Kings County, New Brunswick Designated places in New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-geo-stub

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