There are many stories told on the Miramichi. The one that is best known is of the Dungarvon Whooper.
The story takes place in a lumber camp on the Dungarvon River. The Dungarvon is a part of the Renous River that runs into the Miramichi River. It is twenty miles from Newcastle.
The lumbermen tell of a story of a young Irishman named Ryan. He was the cook at the Dungarvon lumber camp. All the men in his crew liked him. As well as being nice-looking, he was fun-loving and hard-working. The thing they liked best was that he could whoop and yell. He could do it better than anyone in the camp. Someone who could whoop was looked up to by the lumbermen.