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New Brunswick Tourism Region : St. John River Valley
Description From Owner:
- The community takes its name from the river which rises in the Chiputneticook Lakes and flows 120 km SE to Passamaquoddy Bay, forming a part of the boundary between New Brunswick and the State of Maine.
- It was discovered in 1604 by Pierre Du Gua de Monts and Samuel de Champlain and the first settlement in Acadia was built on an island in the river now known as Dochet's Island and in the State of Maine.
- Champlain called the river Sainte-Croix (Saint Cross) because he discovered the river has three branches the estuary joins the Waweig R., Oak Bay and the main river in the form of an irregular cross.
- The 1604 settlement here was a disaster: of the 79 settlers who attempted to 'overwinter,' 39 had died by springtime from scurvy. That summer the settlement was abandoned, the buildings dismantled and moved across the Bay of Fundy to Port Royal.
- For many years following the American Revolution the boundary between New Brunswick and Maine was in dispute.
- In 1797 the Americans argued that the St. Croix R. mapped by Champlain, was in reality the Magaguadavic, while the British insisted that the river called the Scoodic (now the St. Croix) constituted the boundary.
- The matter was settled when Thomas Wright (1740-1812) later surveyor general of Prince Edward Island, discovered and excavated with the help of Champlain's map, the foundations of the ill-fated outpost on Dochet' s Island,
- thus verifying the British claim.
Address of this page: http://nb.ruralroutes.com/StCroix