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Miramichi
River
If you want to know about the Miramichi, follow
the Atlantic salmon. They will take you upstream
from the saltwater of Miramichi Bay and the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, past the City of Miramichi
on the waterway's 217-kilometre-long main
stem. They will lead you deep into the wild,
wooded heart of New Brunswick, where the Southwest
Miramichi, the Little Southwest Miramichi,
the Northwest Miramichi and dozens of tributaries
and brooks form a vast riparian web, draining
a watershed of 12,390 square kilometres. They
will take you past Beaubears Island, where
starving, shivering Acadians once waited for
a rescue that never came, and where Scottish
shipbuilders launched their fortunes. They
will lead you by Red Bank, and the ancient
archeological remains of Metepenagiag, where
Mi'kmaq fishing camps flourished almost 30
centuries ago. They will show you the world's
most famous fly-fishing lodges and resorts,
and take you to the logging and lumbering
lands of Blackville, Doaktown and Boisetown.
Along the way, you may hear a folksong, a
fiddle…and maybe a fib or two. If you
travel far enough, you will reach the secluded
streams, the peaceful pools, the countless
forested fingers of the greater Miramichi,
the greatest Atlantic salmon river in the
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