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Arranged on the Richibucto River, the town was initially occupied by Mi'kmaq First Nations, a considerable lot of whose relatives still live in the close-by Elsipogtog First Nation, once alluded to as the Big Cove Band. Acadian pioneers colonized the general territory in the eighteenth century, in spots, for example, Bouctouche, Miramichi and Richibucto Village.

The principal English-talking pioneer was Thomas Powel who touched base in 1790. There was extensive colonization by English shipbuilders, Scottish vendors and Irish outsiders took after, including numerous Irish Protestants who touched base to work in the Jardine Shipbuilding Yards around the year 1819. They in the end sufficiently cleared land to get arrive stipends following the 1820s study by a Mr. Layton led around the Molus River territory of adjacent Weldford Parish, New Brunswick and the span of Elsipogtog First Nation was lessened to the momentum limits.