Akumaqnuk

The Maccan River winds through the country south of the Chignecto Isthmus toward the tidal waters of the Bay of Fundy. Along with the Nappan and Hébert rivers, it formed part of a network of Mi'kmaw travel routes and provided fish and other resources. The river's name is associated with a Mi'kmaw word for a fishing place. By the middle of the eighteenth century an Acadian settlement had also grown in the district, near the marshes and waterways of the upper bay.