Kouchibouguac, New Brunswick

Kouchibouguac is a community in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

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] Geographical Names Board of Canada

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