The Mi’kmaq people called it Keespongwitk (the land’s end). The French explorer Samuel de Champlain called it Cap- Fourchu (the forked cape) when he first mapped its coast in 1604. The first permanent settlement there was a small French Acadian fishing village named Tebouque that recorded a population of 50 in 1750. (There is even evidence, a runic stone housed in the county museum and archives, which suggests the Vikings visited there in the 11 th century). Some historians argue that its name today comes from a request made by a small group of New England Planters granted land there in 1759.
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