Nepisiguit Bay (from the Mi’kmaq word winpegijawik, which means "rough water")[1] is located in northern New Brunswick, Canada on the southern part of the Chaleur Bay (French: Baie des Chaleurs),[2][3] which extends from the Atlantic Ocean and Nepisiguit Bay is a southern arm of it, stretching between Petit-Rocher and Stonehaven.

[4] The current site of the city of Bathurst was a summer home of the Mi’kmaq First Nation that they called Nepisiguit.

[5] Commodore George Walker, a successful British privateer, set up a fishing and trading operation on the Nepisiguit Bay in 1768 at the present day location of Youghall Park.

Fishing operations didn't resume until 1784 when Colonel Arthur Goold received most of the Eastern shore of Nepisiguit Bay forcing Acadian Settlers to settle on the Western shore of the Bay.

[6] Hugh Munro arrived in Nepisiguit area in 1794 and began a Merchant and Fish operations later expanding into lumbering.