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New Brunswick Tourism Region : Acadian Coast
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- Bologna Gulch (13 km N of Kedgwick adjacent to Stillwater Brook.) is named in rueful memory of a forestry contractor who fed his men only bologna during a winter many years ago.
- Bologna was so disliked that a camp assistant of Father B. J. Murdoch of Chatham suggested in the 1930s that Italians place its inventor in the front lines during the war in Ethiopia.
- When the post office opened here (Kedjwick) in 1913 the place was called Richards Station. In 1915 the name was changed to Kedgwick from the nearby river. The village was incorporated in 1966.
- Kedgwick Forestry Village and Museum at 7989 Route 17 is a 1930s interpretive logging village in front of which is a 7.6metre (24-foot) tall lumberjack statue.
- Kedgwick River: The Micmac knew the river as Madawamkedjwik, meaning a 'large branch of a river,' or 'flowing underground in many places.'
- On a 1786 survey map the river is shown as Cadamgouichoui and on an 1818 map as Madam Kiwwick or Grande Fourche.
- Later maps show the river as: Mam keswee, Katawamkiswy, Madam Keswic, Katwamkeswy, Gaduamgouichoue, Petomkeguick, Quotawaskedgwic, Cadamagopuchoui and Cadamkiswa.
- Rivermen, perhaps despairing of pronouncing some of these names, shortened them to Tom Kedgwick, or Kedgwick and in 1901 the river's name officially became Kedgwick.
- With permission from 'New Brunswick Place Names' David E. Scott 2009
Address of this page: http://nb.ruralroutes.com/Kedgwick