South Branch Kedgwick River

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Southern Branch of the Kedgwick River
Location
Country	Canada
Physical characteristics
Source
⁃ location	Saint-Quentin Parish, Restigouche County, New Brunswick
⁃ coordinates	47°54′21″N68°18′10″W / 47.90583°N 68.30278°W
⁃ elevation	451 m (1,480 ft)
Mouth
⁃ location	Saint-Quentin Parish, Restigouche County, New Brunswick
⁃ coordinates	47°54′28″N67°54′27″W / 47.90778°N 67.90750°W Coordinates: 47°54′28″N67°54′27″W / 47.90778°N 67.90750°W
⁃ elevation	210 m (690 ft)
Length	37.5 km (23.3 mi)
Basin features
Tributaries
⁃ left	(from the confluence) Bains Reef Gulch, Old Shanty Brook, Little Fifteen Mile Brook, Mile Gulch, Meadow Brook.
⁃ right	(from the confluence) Ferguson Berry Gulch, Hornes Tank Gulch, Fifteen Mile Brook, Portage Brook, Indian Brook, Seve Twenty Mile Brook.

Last updated August 23, 2019

The Southern Branch of the Kedgwick River flows into the Saint-Quentin in Restigouche County at New Brunswick, in Canada.

Saint-Quentin is a Canadian parish in Restigouche County, New Brunswick.

New Brunswick is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada. According to the Constitution of Canada, New Brunswick is the only bilingual province. About two-thirds of the population declare themselves anglophones, and one third francophones. One-third of the population describes themselves as bilingual. Atypically for Canada, only about half of the population lives in urban areas, mostly in Greater Moncton, Greater Saint John and the capital Fredericton.

Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres, making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern border with the United States, stretching some 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world's longest bi-national land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

The "South Branch Kedgwick River" is a tributary of Western bank of the Kedgwick River, which flows Southeast up to the West bank of the Restigouche River; the latest flows North up to the border of Quebec, then East up to the West bank of the Chaleur Bay. The latest opens to the East on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

The Kedgwick River is a tributary of the head of the Restigouche River, in New Brunswick, in Canada. It flows southeast in:

The Restigouche River is a river that flows across the northwestern part of the province of New Brunswick and the southeastern part of Quebec.

Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.

Geography

The "South Branch Kedgwick River" takes its source at the mouth of a small lake (length: 0.2 kilometres (0.12 mi); height: 451 metres (1,480 ft)), located in the Northwest part of the New Brunswick.

The source of the "Southern Branch of the Kedgwick River" is located at:

1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) South of the border between Quebec and New Brunswick;
2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) Northeast of Miller Lake which is the head of water of the Rimouski River;
27.9 kilometres (17.3 mi) West of the confluence of the "Southern Branch Kedgwick River";
61.9 kilometres (38.5 mi) North of Edmundston downtown.

Rimouski River is a river emptying in Rimouski, on the South shore of St. Lawrence River, in the regional county municipality (RCM) Rimouski-Neigette, in the administrative region of Bas-Saint-Laurent, in Quebec, in Canada.

Edmundston is a city in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada.

From its source, the "Kedgwick River" flows on 37.5 kilometres (23.3 mi)

4.4 kilometres (2.7 mi) to the East in the Saint-Quentin, in New Brunswick up to a stream (from the West);
6.9 kilometres (4.3 mi) to the Southeast, up to the mouth of "Twenty Seven Mile Brook" (from the Southwest);
8.0 kilometres (5.0 mi) Eastward up to Meadow Brook (from the North);
2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) to the Southeast, up to Indian Brook (from the Southwest);
1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) to the Southeast, up to Eighteen Mile Gulch (from the North);
3.4 kilometres (2.1 mi) eastward up to Portage Brook (from the Southwest);
1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the Northeast, in a valley between mountains, forming a wide curve towards the South up to Old Shanty Brook (from the West);
3.6 kilometres (2.2 mi) North, up to Bains Reef Gulch (from Northwest);
5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) to the Northeast, to the confluence of the "Southern Branch Kedgwick River".^[1]

The "South Branch of the Kedgwick River" empties on the West bank of the Kedgwick River, in forest areas in the locality "Kedgwick Forks".

The confluence of the "Southern Branch Kedgwick River" is located at:

42.5 kilometres (26.4 mi) Northwest from the confluence of the Kedgwick River;
70.0 kilometres (43.5 mi) Northeast of Edmundston downtown;
9.7 kilometres (6.0 mi) South of the border between Quebec and New Brunswick.

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References

↑ Segments of the river measured from the Atlas of Canada (published on Internet), Ministry of Natural Resources Canada

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[1] Segments of the river measured from the Atlas of Canada (published on Internet), Ministry of Natural Resources Canada

South Branch Kedgwick River

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