Kennebecasis

The Kennebecasis winds through wooded valleys to join the Wolastoq, or Saint John River, above the Bay of Fundy. A portage linked its upper waters to the Petitcodiac, allowing Mi'kmaq travellers to cross between two river systems. The river's Indigenous name appears in French records in the late seventeenth century, when land along it was granted to Pierre Chesnet de Breuil. After the American Revolution, Loyalist families received grants in the valley, greatly increasing its settler population.