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Richibucto (originally Liverpool) is a geographic parish in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. [4]For governance purposes it is divided between the towns of Beaurivage and Grand-Bouctouche, the village of Five Rivers, [5] and the Kent rural district, [6] all of are members of the Kent Regional Service Commission, [7] and the Indian Island 28 Indian reserve, which is not.
Richibucto had been the location of an annual Mi'kmaq summer coastal community prior to British colonisation. [3] The town takes its name from "Elsipogtog" or "L'sipuktuk" Mi'kmaq terms meaning "river of fire". [4] It is believed the term was mispronounced, or misunderstood from the Mi'kmaq language. See Elsipogtog First Nation.
On 6 October 1822 Earl of Buckinghamshire was sailing from Quebec for Greenock when a tremendous gale wrecked her and washed two crewmen overboard. The survivors remained on board until 14 October when Mary, of Workington, which had been sailing from Richibucto (Liverpool, New Brunswick), rescued the 22 surviving passengers and 22 surviving crews. [13]
Before John Jardine left for Liverpool, he had hired his nephews John and Thomas Jardine from where they had been working in Scotland. After their uncle had left in 1844, John and Thomas Jardine worked with Joseph Salter in Moncton for a time, built for their uncle under contract, and eventually established their own shipyard on the Richibucto ...
The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Richibucto, New Brunswick, British North America. [56] Lady Franklin United Kingdom: The barque was driven ashore at Buctouche, New Brunswick. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Richibucto. She was refloated on 4 June. [56]
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