Restigouche River

The Restigouche in Campbellton

Evening at Restigouche

The Restigouche (English Restigouche River; French Rivière Ristigouche ) is a river that flows between the Canadian province of New Brunswick and southeastern Quebec.

The river flows from its source in the Appalachians strongly meandering 125 km in a north-easterly direction to the beginning of his mouth at Tide Head (New Brunswick ). The ensuing tidal estuary has many large islands in the Delta. It ends after a freshwater coastal lake in Campbellton leading after 25 km in length at Dalhousie in the Baie des Chaleurs. The river is at its long mouth one placed under conservation important bird sanctuary, during the migration period.

The name

Restigouche derives from the language of the indigenous people of the area around the Baie des Chaleurs from the Mi'kmaq. In their Algonkinsprache they called the current Listigotj or, what translated means: " Divides the country, like the five fingers of the hand ". This refers to its five tributaries: the Kedgwick River, Rivière Matapédia, Rivière Patapédia, the Upsalquitch River and at the end of the Little Main Restigouche River.

Listuguj

The main reserve of the Mi'kmaq tribe part of Gespegeoag, also called Restigouche Group, is located in the opposite Campbellton Listuguj in Québec. This part of trunk in Restigouche Valley bills itself as Listuguj and used as a characteristic symbol of the salmon.

History

For centuries, home to the Mi'kmaq Nation, the river system offers a vast hilly area with many tourist highlights in pristine condition. The still inexhaustible timber resources, especially on hardwoods, also offered the beavers a home. The beaver pelts from the region were a commodity of the Mi'kmaq and dissolved in France in the late 16th century, a true Biberfellhut - boom. The French explorer Jacques Cartier was also the anchored at the mouth of the river in 1534 and the Bay Baie des Chaleurs gave the name. There she received a Kanuflottille the Mi'kmaq, consisting of 50 boats whose occupants are said to have joyfully waved with beaver pelts. The country took Cartier for the French crown in possession, so that it became part of the colony of New France.

The circumstances changed only with the key battle of the Seven Years' War from 3 to 8 July in 1760. This battle rang at the mouth of the Restigouche, except for Louisiana, the end of the French colonies on the North American continent. Many French left now in the following years, the country and settled in the newly founded United States. This population vacuum was offset by Scottish settlers who had left their country due to the evacuation of highlands in the late 18th century.

In the 20th century the industrialization of the river valley with the construction of a highway and the settlement of a wood and paper industry in Campbellton and Dalhousie began.

The Salmon River

The river is known worldwide for its high salmon stocks during the spawning train of Atlantic salmon. Fly fishing and the excellent conditions with fishing by canoe have brought a boom to prominence in the river valley in the last hundred years. Some East Coast tycoons such as Kenneth Colin Irving or the architect Stanford White, is equal to their own fishing lodges built. The list of VIPs fishing is almost infinitely from Wallis Simpson and Bing Crosby to the present time with Norman Schwarzkopf and Brian Mulroney.

"The land of five fingers " was assumed for a distance of 55 km to the Canadian Heritage Rivers System ( s). Here is also a regular fishing equipment industry has settled that help the region to a late summer tourist rush.