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New Brunswick Tourism Region : Mirimichi River Valley
Description From Owner:
- The Christmas Mountains in part separate the Miramichi watershed from the watersheds of the Serpentine and Nepisiguit Rs.
- Provincial surveyor Arthur F. Wightman was the New Brunswick member of the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names in the 1960s.
- In 1964 he was in his office in Fredericton contemplating 10 prominent hills in north-central New Brunswick. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was playing on the radio.
- Wightman was studying the map and on it he noticed the squiggly line of North Pole Stream, named by back country lumbermen for its icy waters.
- He named the 685-metre-high peak (2,192 feet) at the head of the stream, North Pole Mountain and an adjacent peak, Mount St. Nicholas.
- The other eight peaks were named for Santa Claus' reindeer as named in the 1822 poem by Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863).
- Moore titled his poem A Visit From St. Nicholas, but over time it became better known by its first line: T 'was the night before Christmas . . . Following are the 10 mountains, their heights in metres and bracketed in feet:
- North Pole Mountain 690m (2,192) Mount St. Nicholas 625m (2,000) Mount Dasher 750 (2,400) Mount Dancer 670m (2,144) Mount Prancer 580m (1,856) Mount Vixen 650m (2,080) Mount Come/ 550m (1,760) Mount Cupid 530m (1,696) Mount Donder 730m (2,336)
- Mount Blitzen 670m (2,144)
- The Christmas Mountains were Crown land administered by the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and supported an old growth Acadian forest unique to northeastern North America.
- In 1995 the Department of Natural Resources leased the property, including the Christmas Mountains, to the U.S.-owned pulp and paper company Repap (the word paper reversed).
- Despite numerous protests by New Brunswick-based environmentalists, the company built logging roads and clear cut the entire area before the end of the decade.
- With permission from 'New Brunswick Place Names' David E. Scott 2009
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