Chebogue Point
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Arcadia, NS (Nearby: Yarmouth, Hebron, Tusket, Wedgeport, Lower Wedgeport)

23 THE LAST RD
Arcadia, Nova Scotia
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Nova Scotia Tourism Region : Yarmouth and Acadian Shores

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  • An attempt at settlement was made by the French here in 1739 when the place was named Tibogue, but it was unsuccessful.
  • By 1748 there were 12 French families living at Tebok. Permanent settlement started in 1766 when Capt. Ronald McKinnor (1737-1805) received a grant of 800 hectares in this area.
  • He named his holding Argyle after his native county in Scotland. The Mi'kmaq knew the place a Utkubok for 'spring water, or Teceboque for 'cold water.'
  • With permission from 'Nova Scotia Place Names' David E. Scott 2015


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  • The Massacre At Chebogue Harbour
    A number of stories surround the discovery in 1735 of the three-masted ship Baltimore, apparently abandoned in Chebogue Harbour Historians have pieced the mystery together as follows:

    the ship left Dublin, Ireland, with 66 prisoners from Newgate Prison bound for Annapolis, MD. The following year a British surveyor discovered a survivor living with Acadians.

    She claimed to be Susanna Buckler, wife of the Baltimore's captain. She said the ship had put into Chebogue on Dec. 16 for water but the crew had been killed by Mi'kmaw attacks, disease and thirst and she was the only survivor.

    She claimed to have driven the Mi'kmaq away with pistols from the captain's locker. She was given money and introductions to travel to Boston. From there she sailed to London and disappeared.

    The real Mrs. Buckler was later found in Barbados and it was learned the convicts had mutinied, killed the crew, then fought amongst themselves until only one woman and nine convicts remained alive.

    'Mrs. Buckler,' the survivor, turned out to be a Mrs. Mathews, a convict who had concocted the Mi'kmaw attack story to cover her role in the mutiny.

    Two other convicts involved in the mutiny were later captured and tried in Salem, MA, but their fate is not known.

    The Baltimore was towed to Annapolis Royal for the investigation and then it lay idle and unclaimed until about 1742 when it was taken out to sea and burned.


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