[citation needed] More than 200 years after Columbus laid eyes on St. Vincent, the Europeans established a kind of permanent settlement.

Its mountainous and heavily forested geography allowed the Caribs to defend against European settlement here longer than on almost any other island in the Caribbean.

The mixed descendants of the island warriors and the freed Africans, who became known as the Black Caribs, had a common distrust and disgust for the Europeans, and proved to be a fearsome foe.

The Caribs feared complete domination so they allowed the French to construct a settlement on the island in 1719.

[4] In the early 1990s the Canouan Resorts Development company was formed and secured lease for areas of the island to build two hotels - the former Raffles Resort site and Tamarind Beach Hotel site.

At this point the building arm of the company built roads throughout Canouan (previously only dirt tracks), installed electricity to the island and residents houses and provided desalinated water for the first time.

Amenities includes 4 beaches, 4 restaurants and bars, a Jim Fazio designed 18-hole golf course, non-motorized water sports, fitness center, hiking, complimentary kids club, snorkeling, diving, boating and fishing, the resort is open year-round.

It was developed by the Italian banker Antonio Saladino, Irish financier Dermot Desmond and fintech billionaire Andrea Pignataro.