It honours Bartholomew La Bogue, a Micmac chief, "who was called Balt Bogue by the Indians (indigenous) and Bartabogue by the French and English" (Rayburn)".
[1] The Bartibog River rises in northeastern Northumberland County and flows east and south into the Miramichi River at the local service district of Oak Point-Bartibog Bridge.
The promontory on the east bank of the Bartibogue where it meets the Miramichi is called Moody's Point.
It is the location of one of the oldest Roman Catholic Churches in the Miramichi Valley, Sts Peter and Paul's, dating from the 1850s.
The lower stretches of the Bartibogue were settled by people from Scotland, arriving from the 1780s onward.