Lake Branch of the Gulquac

[gnashwalker]

It's small river in the Tobique country, looks good for an overnighter, maybe 2 and a half days. I know there's a falls on it halfway. It enters the Tobique just above Plaster Rock. It looks like easy access off Highway 108.

Someone must know something about it, puh-leeze.... any Plaster Rockers on the board?

Gnash

[Ken Corbett]

I found a reference in a text written over a hundred years ago.

"The Gulquac enters the Tobique from the
south, about twenty-five miles below the Nictaux,
and Gulquac Lake, the source of the south and
principal branch, is connected with Trousers Lake
by a portage two miles and one half long. The
stream is rather too rough for canoeing, as it
winds around the bases of bold and rugged cliffs,
but the upper waters of both, branches lie well
within the country of large game."

The text is lifted from Click here, which details every stretch and tributary of the Saint John River in Maine, Quebec and New Brunswick from the perspective of the canoist in the late 1800s. I'm bookmarking it.

[tgneal]

Hey Ken,
What a great resource. A PDF version of the book can be downloaded at the site to which your link connects.
Tom

[beevar]

Hi gnashwalker,

i've walked it and fished it with my old man as a kid. we always canoed the Tobique and the Mamozekel etc. As Ken's text read, it was known to be rough for canoeing. it is pretty small at the put-in on 108 but might be a good spring challenge. i'll be crossing it this weekend so i can give you an update how it looks right now...

[Ken Corbett]

Mamozekel!!! Tell me more, beevar!! I bet that would be a good stream to pole up from the Forks.

Ken