The Bartibog River (also spelled Bartibogue) is a tributary of the Miramichi River in New Brunswick, Canada.
The Bartibog River rises in northeastern Northumberland County and flows east and south into the Miramichi River at the community of Bartibog Bridge.
The Bartibog River watershed is entirely rural, dominated by forests and small farms in the communities of Bartibog Bridge, Russellville, Bartibog, and Bartibog Station. Below Russellville the river is tidal.
The promontory on the east bank of the Bartibogue where it meets the Miramichi is called Moody's Point. It is the location of one of the oldest Roman Catholic Churches in the Miramichi Valley, Sts Peter and Paul's, dating from the 1850s.
The lower stretches of the Bartibogue were settled by people from Scotland, arriving from the 1780s onward. They were of mixed Catholic and Presbyterian background. A number of Irish families and several Acadian families settled later.
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