Cable Head is an unincorporated community in Kings County, Prince Edward Island, north of St. Peters Bay, west of Goose River, and east of Greenwich, home of Greenwich National Park.
Its precise location is 46'28"N, 62'37"W. The official history of the geographic name Cable Head is that when the first Scots settlers came to this district, they found on the shore below the farm now owned by John Simmons, a piece of hemp cable, evidently from some vessel.
From this incident they named the place in Gaelic "Ceann Cable" meaning 'Cable End.'
Cable Head was home of Corporal George Palmer, who survived 46 months as a prisoner in Japanese POW Camps in World War II.
Canadian playwright David French (1939-2010), most noted for his “Mercer Plays”, resided in Cable Head during the summers.