In the early 1920s, a few New Brunswick squatters settled there, quickly followed by families from Sainte-Rose-du-Dégelé (now Dégelis), who occupied a strip of land along Baker Creek, then by people from Montreal, Quebec, Beauce and Bellechasse.

[citation needed] The Saint-Maur mission was installed near the Romain-Caron bridge on the right as you descend the Meruimticook River.

[citation needed] The presence of these two mills stimulated the arrival of new settlers and the development of the St-Maur mission.

The lumber used to build the church was prepared by Damase Lang, a resident of Baker Lake, who at that time operated at the sawmill at Rang VIII and IX South on the New Brunswick and Quebec border.

[citation needed] In 2011, the municipality of Saint-Jean-de-la-Lande will lose one of its pioneers and former mayor of the parish: Robert Belzile, he arrived in 1932 aged 6 with his parents Charles Belzile, Adèle Thibault as well than his brothers and sisters: Alphonse, Jean-Charles, Gratien, Paul-Émile, Agnès, Germaine, Aurèle, Ivanhoe, Lina and Fernand.