Kouchibouguac, New Brunswick
Kouchibouguac is a community in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Kouchibouguac is also home to Kouchibouguac National Park.
Kouchibouguac is a corruption, partially through the French, of the Micmac Pijeboogwek, meaning "long tideway river"- a descriptive for the length of the river's tidal estuary. The name was adopted for the region's national park in 1971.[1]
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[edit]- ^ Hamilton, William (1978). The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names. Toronto: Macmillan. p. 78. ISBN 0-7715-9754-1.
Geographical Names Board of Canada
46°47′44.6″N 65°3′21.1″W / 46.795722°N 65.055861°W
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