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The Richibucto River is a ''Columbia Gazetteer''
The river's name means "river of fire" in the
The Richibucto River is a river
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
in eastern New Brunswick
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, Canada
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which empties into the Northumberland Strait north of Richibucto. It is 80 kilometres long.The river's name means "river of fire" 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 ...
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Other villages situated along the river include Five Rivers and Elsipogtog First Nation. Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law (; 16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923) was a British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1922 to May 1923.
Law was born in the British colony of New Brunswick (now a Canadi ...
, the British prime minister, was raised along the river.
Tributaries
* Bass River,Weldford Parish, New Brunswick
Weldford is a geographic parish in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada.
For governance purposes it is divided between the villages of Five Rivers and Nouvelle-Arcadie, which are both members of the Kent Regional Service Commission, and the R ...
* 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 * Five Rivers * Richibucto * Upper RextonRiver crossings
* Route 11 * Route 134 * Route 490 * Indian House RoadSee also
*List of bodies of water 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
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