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5549 St. Peter’s Road |
Prince Edward Island Tourism Region : Points East Coastal Drive
Description From Owner:
- From 1851-1913 the post office here was Head of St. Peters Bay and from 1913 it was St. Peters Bay. The first unofficial French settlement began here in 1719 when French sailors Francis Douville and Charles Carpentier, both from Normandy, arrived.
- They had been shipwrecked farther east at Naufrage. In 1721 Louis Denys de la Ronde (1675-1741) named the place for Louis-Hyacinthe Castel, Comte de Saint-Pierre, director-general of the Compagnie de l'Île Saint-Jean.
- Saint-Pierre had been charged by the company with development of the island from 1719 to 1724, but he was described as 'a courtier greedy for profit rather than a colonizer' and the company went bankrupt. The colonization project was abandoned in 1724.
- Nevertheless the area flourished because of its success as a fishing station. The census of 1752 showed 63 families with a total population of 353. In 1758 all were deported and the village was destroyed.
- Just before the expulsion the bell of the parish church was buried for safe keeping and was rediscovered by a farmer in 1871.
- It was repaired and now hangs in the church of St. Alexis at Rollo Bay. The area was resettled in the late 1700s by Scottish emigrants and returned to the Acadians.
- Map 1750 Riviere Ronton; Jumeau 1685 R. S. Antoine de pade.
- In Pogoosumkek Booktaba, 'bay of clams' (Rand) or Oegôpeg, 'end of the water” (Pacifique 1934). St. Peters River flows into the bay.
- With permission from 'Prince Edward Island Place Names' David E. Scott 2011
Address of this page: http://pei.ruralroutes.com/StPetersBay
