Molus River, New Brunswick

Epsikitiáskuk is what the Mi’kmaq people of Elsipogtog First Nation called the Molus River.^{[1][full citation needed]}

The settlement had a post office between 1867 and 1970, named Moulies River from 1867 to 1950, and Molus River from 1950 to 1970. In 1871, the population was 150. In 1898, there was a church, the population had risen to 300, and it was a "farming, fishing and lumbering settlement".^[2]

A possible source for the word Molus is from the French language spoken by Acadian living in the Richibucto River area, with the word "moluёs" being a French word for a tidal flat mussel, a type of shellfish commonly found on muddy beaches along the river.

For a period from about 1850–1900 the name on maps was often spelled Moulies River and moulies is a type of coal shale that was harvested during the days of coal mining operations along the Coal Branch River, which is another tributary of the Richibucto River Estuary.^{[citation needed]} There is also an old oral tradition that the river may have been named for a Henry Molus, an early settler or explorer in the area.