Havre-Aubert

Some suggested the name of an obscure friend of Jacques Cartier, while others brought up Thomas Aubert, a sailor from Dieppe and one of the Americas' first explorers, or François Aubert de La Chesnaye, who would have supported the colonization efforts of New France, as likely explanations.

The term "ber" itself meaning, in this case, "berceau" (cradle in English, while "havre" is French for harbour).

However, "ber" is also a marine term designating the wood structure on which a boat lies during construction or reparation.

Yet, while this is an interesting fact to note, it is likely to be a simple slang term in French to reference the berceau, heard and used in conversation by the anglophone population over the years.

Meanwhile, an anonymous British map of the area in 1756 named it Harbour Ober, which was in all likelihood, an anglicization of french-origin place-names.