[1][2] East Noel may have been Vil Robere - first settled by the Robert Henry family.

Dwellings marked on contemporaneous maps suggest that the village around the Noel Bay was much larger than any other along the shore.

Alternatively, there is evidence to suggest that Vil Robere is Selma, Nova Scotia.

After the exodus of the Acadians, Francis Densmore was the first to settle the community on the east side of the Noel Bay twenty two years later (1772).

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