Becaguimec

Becaguimec joins the Wolastoq, or Saint John River, in a valley long inhabited by the Wolastoqiyik, the people of the river. Its name refers to the salmon that gathered at the mouth of the stream. The fertile ground beside the water supported cultivation as well as fishing: in 1790 a Wolastoqiyik man known as Governor Toma was recorded tending a field of maize here. Later in the decade a Loyalist settler, William Orser, came to the mouth of the Becaguimec.