Siegas

The Siegas River flows into the upper Wolastoq, or Saint John River, in the forested Madawaska country. Its name comes from a Wolastoqey word interpreted as a river difficult to pass; an early map rendered it “Troublesome River”. The valley was part of the homeland of the Wolastoqiyik, whose villages and waterways linked the upper river with the country downstream. In the late eighteenth century Acadian families came upriver and established farms along the Wolastoq and its tributaries.