Rivière-aux-Canards

The community occupied the present-day site of Canard, Port Williams and Starr's Point, Nova Scotia.

[1] Acadians settled along the Canard River in the late 1600s and called it Rivière-aux-Canards after the French word for duck.

On October 27, 1755 fourteen transport ships embarked 1,600 Acadians from the region of Grand-Pré and Rivière-aux-Canards, as well as 1,300 from Pisiguit and Cobequid.

[5] The deportation vessels joined up with ten other ships in the Bay of Fundy with 1,900 Acadiens from the region of Beaubassin.

Their former lands became part of newly surveyed "Cornwallis Township" settled by New England Planters, some of whom employed the remaining Acadians to repair dykes.

The homes of Rivière-aux-Canards burning in the distance depicted in this painting showing the déportation of the Acadians at Grand-Pré .