Sule'katik

At Sule'katik, the broad waters of the Mira River find their way into Mira Bay through a narrow outlet on the eastern coast of Unama'ki. Much of the lower river is a tidal estuary, its waters reaching far inland across the island. Mi'kmaq families made seasonal camps along its banks. French settlers arrived in the early eighteenth century, farming the land and exporting timber, including white pine valued for ships' masts; in 1727 they established a brickyard to make use of the riverbank clay.