After the siege of Louisbourg, Wolfe and Hardy led a force of 1,500 troops in nine vessels to the Gaspé Bay arriving there on September 5.

Over the following weeks, Sir Charles Hardy took 4 sloops or schooners, destroyed about 200 fishing vessels and took about two hundred prisoners.

During this time period Acadians participated in various militia operations against the British and maintained vital supply lines to the French Fortress of Louisbourg and Fort Beausejour.

During the expulsion, the Saint John River valley became the center of Acadian and Algonkian resistance to the British military in the region.

After participating in the siege of Louisbourg (1758), on September 5, 1758, Wolfe arrived on HMS Royal William at Gaspé Bay.

Murray's troops destroyed their provisions, livestock, wigwams, houses and burned the stone church, after which the community is named.

On September 13, Captain Paulus Irving was detached with several small parties under convoy of Kennington to Grande-Rivière, Quebec.

The Seigneur was de Bellefeuille, who had the military title, "Commander for the King throughout the coste of Gaspée and the Bay of Chaleur.

De Bellefeuille's house was situated upon a little island in the Pabos River, Captain Irving had the 27 homes and 17 buildings burned along with 15 chaloupes, leaving the residents deprived of everything.

From Gaspe Bay, on September 14, Wolfe sent Major John Dalling to march 130 miles (210 km) along the shore up the St. Lawrence.

[16] Two years later the Governor of Cape Breton cautioned Lawrence about trying to remove any more of them for fear of retaliation by Mi'kmaq fighters.

[18] After Wolfe had left the area, the 1760 Battle of Restigouche led to the capture of several hundred Acadians at Boishébert's refugee camp at Petit-Rochelle.

[19] The following year, Pierre du Calvet made a census of the Chaleur Bay, whose purpose was to determine where and how many Acadians were hiding there.