The coast of the Aspotogan Peninsula is dotted with a number of small fishing and tourist-related communities; Hubbards in the northeast being the largest.
Mi'kmaq sites have been found in Fox Point, Northwest Cove, the village of Aspotogan and East River.
The Acadians never lived on the Aspotogan Peninsula; however, their presence in Nova Scotia significantly influenced immigration to the colony.
To off set the Catholic population, with the founding of Halifax (1749), the British created an immigration policy to attract Protestants to the colony.
After 1767, a significant strain of immigrants to settle the Aspotogan Peninsula was Foreign Protestants, both German and French speaking.
Upon the founding of Halifax in 1749, Nova Scotia was a British Protestant colony with only Catholic Acadian settlers.
In an attempt to assimilate the Catholic Acadians, the British invited Protestants from across Europe to settle in Nova Scotia.
Zinck p. 43-48 One of the most famous people to make Deep Cove their home was Cyrus Eaton, a millionaire industrialist.
This provided easy rail access for visitors to the scenic splendor and beaches of the area and made the Aspotogan Peninsula a popular tourist destination.
Reasonable land prices and the opportunity to live in a rural setting also encouraged many city dwellers to move to the area.
[16] The Gainsborough hotel was sold to the federal government in 1944 and was used as part of the St. Margaret's Bay Training School for the Canadian Merchant Navy.
The radio station consisted of approximately 4,000 acres (16 km2) of land, private married quarters, and administration buildings.
In 1994, the Aspotogan Heritage Trust was created to oversee the renovation and re-population of the land and buildings that were decommissioned at CFS Mill Cove following the automation of the receiver station.
The Trust markets these assets as Mill Cove Park and includes the province's first dedicated sound stage (established in 1996) in the former administration and gymnasium buildings.
Author Frank Parker Day lived on East Ironbound, an island which is just off the shore of Blandford, Nova Scotia.