Caraquet Bay () is situated in the northeast of the

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. It is bordered on the south by the town of

Caraquet Caraquet ( ) is a town in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. Situated on the shore of Chaleur Bay in the Acadian Peninsula, its name is derived from the Mi'kmaq term for ''meeting of two rivers''. The Caraquet River and Rivière du Nord ...

and the village of Bertrand, to the south by the parish of New Bandon, to the north by the village of Maisonnette and to the northwest by the Baie des Chaleurs. Caraquet Island is located between the two bays. There are a number of beaches on the bay, as well as

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farms and the port of Caraquet. Caraquet Bay flows into the Caraquet River and the Du Nord River There are two theories about the origin of the bay's name. Either Caraquet is a word in the

Mi'kmaq language The Miꞌkmaq language ( ; ), or , is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Miꞌkmaq in Canada and the United States; the total ethnic Miꞌkmaq population is roughly 20,000. The native name of the language is , or (in some ...

meaning "where two rivers meet", or it comes from a type of ship, the

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."Caraquet." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. August 3, 2007 . Governor Nicolas Denys was the first to mention Caraquet, in 1672.William Francis Ganong, ''The History of Caraquet and Pokemouche'', New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, 1948

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Atlas of Canada - Baie de Caraquet

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