[3] The Acadian Noël Doiron settled in the community around 1710 with his family and lived there for forty years, leading English surveyors who first mapped the village to name it after him.

Upon his return from the New France victory in the Battle of Grand Pré (1747), military officer Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu stopped into Noel to tend to his wounded soldiers.

[citation needed] At the beginning of Father Le Loutre's War, Noel Doiron and many others joined the Acadian Exodus from mainland Nova Scotia to the French colony of Ile St. Jean (i.e., Prince Edward Island).

[6] For his "noble resignation" and self-sacrifice aboard the Duke William, Noel was celebrated in popular print throughout the 19th century in England and America.

This shipyard produced twenty vessels, the largest being the Amanda, which was sailed out of the bay by Captain William Scott of Minasville, Nova Scotia.

The reason for the name's unknown origin was, in part, because the oral history of the community was lost with the Deportation of the Acadians, which left the village vacated for 21 years.

This folklore has also been reflected in a recent children’s book by Bruce Nunn and Yolanda Poplawska named Magical Christmas Light of Old Nova Scotia (2003).