The Richibucto 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

north of

Richibucto Richibucto is a town in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. Geography The town is situated on the Richibucto River where it discharges into the Northumberland Strait. History Richibucto had been the location of an annual Mi'kmaq summer coas ...

. It is 80 kilometres long.''Columbia Gazetteer''
The river's name means "river of fire" in the

Mi'kmaq language 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 nor ...

. Other villages situated along the river include Rexton and Elsipogtog First Nation.

Bonar Law Andrew Bonar Law ( ; 16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1922 to May 1923. Law was born in the British colony of New Brunswick (now ...

, the British prime minister, was raised along the river.

Tributaries

* Bass River,

Weldford Parish, New Brunswick Weldford is a civil parish in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between Richibucto 15 Indian reserve and the local service district of the parish of Weldford, which is a member of the Kent Regional Serv ...

* Coal Branch River * Molus River * St. Nicholas River ** East Branch St. Nicholas River ** South Branch St. Nicholas River ** West Branch St. Nicholas River * St. Charles River

River communities

* Browns Yard * Elsipogtog First Nation * Jardineville * Jerrys Island * Lower Main River * Rexton *

* Upper Rexton

River crossings

* Route 11 * Route 134 * Route 490 * Indian House Road

References

Rivers of New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-river-stub

Tributaries

River communities

River crossings

See also

References