Chipoudy

Along the northern shore of the Bay of Fundy, wooded hills descend towards tidal waters and the estuary of the Shepody River. Mi'kmaq and Wolastoqiyik people used the coast before Acadian families established Chipoudy among the marshes farther east. Its settlers made their homes along the river, in a district of waterways and fertile lowlands.

Pierre Thibodeau and members of his family came from Port Royal and began settling Chipoudy around the turn of the eighteenth century. Their new community was drawn into the struggle for Acadia. In 1755, British troops sent to destroy the settlement found that its inhabitants had fled into the woods; houses and a church were burned during the expulsion of the Acadians. Farther west along the Fundy coast, permanent European settlement followed in the nineteenth century.