Tobique River

The Tobique River (pro. Toe-Bick)is a river in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada. The river rises from Nictau Lake in Mount Carleton Provincial Park and flows for 148 kilometres to the Saint John River near Perth-Andover. [ [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/facts/rivers.html NRCAN - Canadian Rivers] ]

The river flows in a general southwesterly direction. At Nictau, it is joined by the river's Right Hand Branch, which drains Square Lake and Trousers Lake through the River Don and River Dee respectively. Past Nictau, the river flows past Blue Mountain, Oxbow to the village of Plaster Rock, where it is joined by the Wapske River. The Tobique flows west from there, past the Tobique First Nation, to the Saint John River.

The Tobique Narrows Dam was built between 1951-1953 by NB Power approximately one kilometre from the river's mouth. [government of New Brunswick [http://www.gnb.ca/legis/business/committees/previous/reports-e/nbpowerbp96-01/intro-e.asp NB Power Corporate History] ]

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