Tkipok

Tkipok, later known as Chebogue, lies on a river near the southwestern end of Nova Scotia. The waterways and coast were part of Mi'kmaw country before French traders and Acadian families established themselves there. Following the destruction of Port Royal in the seventeenth century, traders moved to the Chebogue River and continued exchanging goods with the Mi'kmaq.

Acadian families settled near the former trading post in the eighteenth century. They farmed and maintained connections with their Indigenous neighbors, but the British campaign against Acadian settlements reached the southwest during the expulsion that began in 1755. The community at Chebogue was dispersed, and new settlers from New England arrived in 1761. The river and its harbor remained the setting for a community rebuilt after the displacement.