Vallée-des-Rivières
Vallée-des-Rivières is a town in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It was formed through the 2023 New Brunswick local governance reforms. History Vallée-des-Rivières was incorporated on January 1, 2023 via the amalgamation of the former town of Saint-Léonard and the former village of Sainte-Anne-de Madawaska as well as the concurrent annexation of adjacent unincorporated areas. The adjacent unincorporated areas included portions of the former local service districts of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Poitier, DSL Ste-Anne, DSL St-Léonard, Sainte-Anne and Saint-Léonard. Geography It is located 30km south east of Edmundston on the east bank of the Saint John River opposite Van Buren, Maine, to which it is connected via the Saint Leonard–Van Buren Bridge. Climate The town has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb), even for this type of climate the warm season can be milder for a non-coastal city like Saint John, because the Great Lakes and Appalachians hold much of the heat. that come from the Gulf of Mexico and the interior of the United States. But winters are substantially cold with spring and fall with pleasant temperatures. Government The community's first municipal election was held in November 2022 as part of the 2022 New Brunswick municipal elections, with Saint-Léonard