The One-and-Only Bartibog Blog!

We were driving our motorhome today across the Bartiblog River, moving from Caraquet, New Brunswick to Cornwall, Prince Edward Isand, when, what to our wondering eyes should appear, but a fire-engine-red upright piano, perched on a pier of the former bridge over the Bartibog River!  Here's what it looked like from our vantage as we sped across the river:

This was not our photo.  We were moving too fast to capture the moment.  This photo comes from the Saint John, New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, which wrote one of many local articles about this magical red piano.

You can read another article by CBC News Canada which gives you the entire history of the piano.  The short story is that this is not the first piano that local resident George MacDonald of Bartibog Bridge, about 15 kilometres north of Miramichi, has put up on the old pier.  "It's just a thing, I don't know why," said the 77-year-old. "I like doing stuff like that."

And, if it's any comfort, we have absolutely no idea what "Bartibog," or its French correlate, "Bartibogue," might possibly mean.  That will have to remain a mystery for now.