This website is about waterfalls and very little else. It is an exploration and documentation of the Waterfalls of New Brunswick. Over the past year I lamented over the lack of information about one of New Brunswick’s natural wonders. Every time I searched the Internet I would find pictures of waterfalls but very little information or directions on how to locate them.
With input and encouragement from Martin Marshall a waterfalls enthusiast and Lane MacIntosh a writer who shares similar interest, I decided on developing a website to share my interest with individuals who enjoy their time to hike into the woods and to enjoy the power and energy of our numerous rivers and waterfalls. If I was to follow this path I also wanted to learn about the historical importance they afforded our province. I needed to also document the native names for our waterways for their cultural importance.
I will provide directional information which hopefully will spur people to explore and enjoy our waterfalls.
You are invited to enjoy the pictures and comment on the various falls I photograph. I will make my way around the province photographing, researching and documenting the various falls in our picture province.
Comments and information about waterfalls are always welcome. If information is incorrect, please feel free to provide accurate information and the site will be updated. I also welcome any historical information and information about a waterfalls that you may want to see on this site.
Lastly, I will not post pictures from other photographers nor will I copy photo’s from other sources and publish on this site. I will update photograph’s of waterfalls as I revisit areas of interest.
Nice job, Nick. beautiful pictures. Keep up the good work. It would be fun to know a little history and how these places got their names. For example, who was Dunbar? Is Joslin falls connected to the Joslin farm at Kings Landing Historical Settlement? Have fun.
Thanks so much for detailing New Brunswick’s hidden treasures. Although some may consider this a drive-thru province, those who live here and appreciate the natural beauty of the area know better. I appreciate your detailed information, research and photography – thanks for helping New Brunswickers (and others!) get to know our province more intimately.
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I have a family link to Jewett’s Falls. I wrote the story below about the valley that it is found in for the NB Naturalist several years ago. Thought you might like to read it. Did you walk out on the east or west side of the Creek? We took the east side and it took us more than 10 minutes to get back to the car which was parked near the TCH. Nice site. Thanks. D. Peck
The Valley at Jewetts Creek
Many New Brunswickers have a unique or treasured natural place with which they have some sort of bond. After all, our province has many spectacular forests, fields, mountains and meadows. There is lots of land to appreciate and to hold valuable for one reason or other.
Last summer I was able to explore and reconnect with a special natural place that has had family significance since the mid 1800s. Back then my great, great grandfather Moses attained ownership of land along Jewetts Creek, in the Parish of Prince William, York County, on which he began to farm and build a grist mill and a black smith’s shop. Through the intervening years, this property has always been known as “The Valley” to my family. The original deed is on the table in front of me as I write this. It talks of Moses Jewett and his son John Lewis Jewett. Its text is written by hand, in fading black ink. It describes the boundaries of the land with phrases such as “to commence at the hemlock tree standing on the east bank of the stream and running at right angles until it strikes a sapling hemlock and then a few rods westerly until it strikes a little cedar…..” The pages of the document are yellowing and brittle, but it survives even though the land that it refers to has been impacted dramatically by the progress of time.
I can relate to the impact only in my memory, however, since I saw the place just once, when I was 12 years old. I visited the farm’s derelict house and barnyard then, just before the completion of the Mactaquac Dam. I recall understanding that the water levels of the St. John River, at the mouth of Jewetts Creek, would soon rise significantly and flood the Valley farm completely. The mature forest that grew on the banks of the creek would soon be harvested and the land submerged under many meters of water. Kings Landing Historical settlement would be built on the land immediately to the north. A newly constructed Trans Canada Highway would cross the creek bed to the south.
It was this southern section of the creek, well beyond the original Jewett family property boundary, that my husband Ken and I decided to explore last summer. Many, many years after my first visit to Jewetts Creek, we were trying to locate Split Rock, which is where my grandmother Kathleen was proposed to by my grandfather, James Dunphy. We had a black and white picture to go by and a rough estimate of the distance that my grandparents would have walked back from the farm on that day of their courtship.
Our hike took us through lush colonies of royal ferns and around and between large hemlock, cedar and white pine trees. A stretch or two of poison ivy made the route interesting as did the steepness of the slope on either side of the water channel and the large boulders and rocky outcrops that occurred there. At every turn in the stream we felt sure that the rock ahead of us was close enough to the one in the picture for us to be able to say that we had arrived at our destination. We were sure that the passage of almost 100 years would have changed the creek channel perhaps beyond recognition. But it was absolutely obvious when we did indeed arrive at Split Rock because the land features were identical to those in our photograph. It was an amazing place with deep, and crystal clear pools of water……definitely one worth proposing marriage at! While enjoying the quiet surroundings, listening to the trickle of the creek over the rocky substrate, I found myself marveling at the stamina of my grandparents back in the 1920s. They knew that this place was unique and now I know why. I am thankful for the family connection that I have to it and I hope that it will be in the same state in another 100 years. Is there a small part of New Brunswick that holds equal significance for you?
Hey this is a great site you should have a feature on it where other people can upload photos and info about other falls that you don’t have.
Thanks, Andrew
Hi Nick,
I was excited and surprised to stumbled across your website recently! Last fall I was drawn back to the area’s by New Brunswick’s wild and diverse landscape. Now it’s become my mission to help others realize how lucky they are to live here and to encourage them to get out exploring and moving. Your website has been an excellent resource. Thanks for all your hard work. It’s encouraging for me to see that other people, such as yourself, understand the beauty of this province.
I have posted a link to your website on my blog “Local Motion” wwww.grhmwgh.blogspot.com. Check it out.
Have a great spring while falls are gushing!
Graham
Kudos for undertaking this project and sharing with others. We are truly blessed here in New Brunswick with so many picturesques sites of natural beauty. I’m off today to enjoy some of them on the Kingston Penninsula – one of which I’m not sure you’ve mentioned on the site – Gauthier Falls off Route 121 on the Gauthier Road – truly amazing.
Happy venturing,
Martine
I have your book and I LOVE it! I am determinded to see every waterfall in it. I love the outdoors and your book & website has given me a reason to spend more time outside.
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