A Martime's View

NEW BLOG IMAGE. One would think that a photo of 1800 ships at the Moncton Wharf on the Petitcodiac River is the OLD. Not so.. This Blog was started several years ago and titled "Our Invisible World"because I wrote about things I saw in daily life which we ignore to be Socially Correct. Today, I will change the image and page structure and the contents will be for my grandchildren and their parents. Writing about Moncton N.B., on Canada's East coast and my life of retirement back home where I grow up. Enjoy, I will attempt to do two entries a week and may even throw in a little French (Acadian live around this area)

The Moncton Newspaper is the Times & Transcript and recent news has been about the recent "Release" of the Petitcodiac River. Blocked just above Moncton by a Causeway which allowed traffic across the to Riverview on the opposite bank and forming what some called Lake Petitcodiac This photograph shows why the river has been nicknamed "Chocolate River" and we must go to the Telegraph Journal (St-John) for the whole story. (Click Link for News Story)

Here are some extracts.

"In the early 1970s, people stopped fishing the Petitcodiac because there were no fish," Victor LeBlanc says. "Before, you could go out and catch maybe 200 shad, now you might catch 10."

"LeBlanc, a retired school teacher from Belliveau Village, near Memramcook, is one of only about a dozen people who still have a licence to fish the Petitcodiac,.....

His father and grandfather were among as many as 150 fishermen who had licences to fish on the Petitcodiac prior to the construction of the causeway. The main fisheries at the time were Atlantic salmon, gaspereau, smelt, sturgeon and shad."

Today, we buy a Tim Horton Coffee and go down beside the old Moncton Wharf (which is no longer there) and watch for the Tidal Bore. When the Bay of Fundy Tides rises faster than it can get up the river it creates a wave running up the river followed by the higher tide. Betty and I watched for 6 months almost 2 or 3 times a week before seeing it.

The Telegraph Journal writes "Fort Folly First Nation Chief Joe Knockwood recalls the tidal bore that came up the Petitcodiac and the loud rumbling sound that signalled its arrival."
"It was high. It was beautiful," he says. "It's one big wave coming upriver and that's the tide coming in "¦ you can hear it. It's just rolling, rapid. It's a lot of noise like a river tearing a huge wave."
Fort Folly First Nation is located downriver from Moncton just outside of Dorchester.

God keep you..

Pour les enfant (francais) "Rappelle le Vague de Marée qui est monté le Petitcodiac et le son grondant bruyant qui a signalé son arrivée ». « C'était haut. C'était beau, » il dit. « C'est une grande vague qui vient en amont et cela est la marée qui suive » ¦ vous pouvez l'entendre. Il roule juste, le rapide. Il est beaucoup de bruit comme une rivière déchirant une vague énorme ».