Kakouna

Kakouna is the older spelling of Cacouna, on the lower Saint Lawrence near Rivière-du-Loup. In 1673 the territory was granted to André Daulier DuParc; merchant Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye acquired the LeParc fief in 1689. Settlement later brought Acadian families displaced by deportation, followed by fishers, farmers and navigators from parishes farther upriver.

By the late eighteenth century, a hamlet had formed around farmer Jean Saindon's house-chapel. Forty-five tenant farmers in the peninsula sector took their grain to the seigneurial mill at Pointe à Moreau. The Royal Road was laid out in 1798, while the Fontaine Claire inlet offered a natural harbour. Around 1810 a chapel on the sandy hillside became a focus for houses belonging to artisans and merchants. A resident priest and parish registers followed in 1813, and Saint-Georges-de-Kakouna was canonically established as a parish on 1 October 1825.