Restigouche
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Restigouche River Rivière Ristigouche |
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 The restigouche at Campbellton |
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| location | Québec , New Brunswick ( Canada ) | |
| River system | Restigouche | |
| confluence | from Little Main Restigouche River and Kedgwick River 48 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ N , 66 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W |
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Chaleur Bay ( Saint Lawrence Gulf ) Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 42 " N , 66 ° 45 ′ 18" W 47 ° 59 ′ 42 " N , 66 ° 45 ′ 18" W |
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| Mouth height |
0 m
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| length | approx. 150 km (including Little Main Restigouche River: 200 km) | |
| Discharge at gauge below Kedgwick River A Eo : 3,160 km² |
MQ 1963/2010 Mq 1963/2010 |
68 m³ / s 21.5 l / (s km²) |
| Discharge at the level above Rafting Ground Brook A Eo : 7740 km² |
MQ 1969/2010 Mq 1969/2010 |
163 m³ / s 21.1 l / (s km²) |
| Left tributaries | Rivière Matapédia , Rivière Patapédia | |
| Right tributaries | Upsalquitch River | |
| Small towns | Campbellton | |
 In the evening at the Restigouche |
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The Restigouche ( English Restigouche River ; French Rivière Ristigouche ) is a river that flows between the Canadian province of New Brunswick and southeast Québec .
The river meanders strongly from its origin in the Appalachians for 125 km in a northeast direction to the beginning of its mouth at Tide Head (New Brunswick). The now following tidal funnel mouth has many large islands in the delta. It ends after a freshwater coastal lake at Campbellton after 25 km at Dalhousie in the Baie des Chaleurs . At its long mouth, the river is an important protected bird sanctuary during migration.
The name
Restigouche is derived from the language of the indigenous people of the area around the Baie des Chaleurs, the Mi'kmaq . In their Algonquian language they called the river Listigotj or , which translates as: " Divide the land like the five fingers in a hand ". It refers to its five tributaries: the Kedgwick River , Rivière Matapédia , Rivière Patapédia , the Upsalquitch River and finally the Little Main Restigouche River .
Listuguj
The main reserve of the Mi'kmaq sub-tribe of the Gespegeoag, also known as the Restigouche group, is located in Listuguj in Québec, opposite Campbellton. This sub-tribe in the Restigouche Valley also calls itself Listuguj and uses the salmon as a characteristic symbol.
history
Home of the Mi'kmaq nation for centuries, the river system offers an extensive hilly landscape with many tourist highlights in a natural state. The almost inexhaustible wood deposits, especially hardwoods , also offered the beavers a home. The beaver pelts from the region were a trade item of the Mi'kmaq and triggered a true beaver fur hat boom in France at the end of the 16th century. It was also the French explorer Jacques Cartier who anchored at the mouth of the river in 1534 and named the bay Baie des Chaleurs . They were received by a Mi'kmaq canoe flotilla, consisting of 50 boats, the occupants of which are said to have waved happily with beaver skins. Cartier took possession of the land for the French crown, making it part of the colony of New France .
The situation only changed with the key battle of the Seven Years' War from July 3rd to 8th, 1760. This sea battle at the mouth of the Restigouche heralded the end of the French colonies on the North American continent , with the exception of Louisiana . Many French people left the country in the following years and settled in the newly formed United States . This population vacuum was made up by Scottish settlers who left their land due to the clearing of the highlands in the late 18th century.
In the 20th century the industrialization of the river valley began with the construction of a highway and the establishment of a wood and paper industry in Campbellton and Dalhousie.
The salmon river
The river is known worldwide for its high salmon stocks during the spawning migration of the Atlantic salmon . The fly-fishing and the excellent conditions with the fishing canoe have taken to the river valley in the last hundred years a real boom to prominence. Some east coast industrial tycoons, such as Kenneth Colin Irving or the architect Stanford White , built their own fishing lodges. The list of fishing VIPs is almost endless, from Wallis Simpson and Bing Crosby to the present day with Norman Schwarzkopf and Brian Mulroney .
" The land of the five fingers " was placed under the Canadian Heritage Rivers System over a distance of 55 km . A real fishing equipment industry has settled here, helping the region to attract a late summer tourist rush.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commission de toponymie du Québec: Rivière Ristigouche
- ↑ Water Survey of Canada: Station 01BC001 ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2010) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Water Survey of Canada: Station 01BJ007 ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2010) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Natural Resources Canada
