Tatamagouche Bay

Tatamagouche Bay opens onto Northumberland Strait along the northern shore of Nova Scotia. Its rivers and sheltered harbour were part of Mi'kmaq country and later the site of an Acadian settlement. In June 1745 three New England vessels intercepted a French, Huron and Mi'kmaq force leaving Tatamagouche with supplies for besieged Louisbourg. Ten years later British soldiers burned the Acadian settlement during the expulsion, forcing its families to leave their homes.