Rouge Cape

Rouge Cape is placed among the waters around Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St Lawrence. The Mi'kmaq call the island Epekwitk and lived there long before European arrival. Its shores and surrounding waterways formed part of Mi'kma'ki, a wider homeland connected by seasonal travel.

In the eighteenth century the island, known to the French as Île Saint-Jean, became a setting for Mi'kmaq and French alliances as well as rivalry between France and Britain. From the 1720s, alliance renewals took place at Port-la-Joye.