Children of the village attend Evelyn Richardson Memorial Elementary School, named for a local author.

On October 4, 1967, multiple people saw a chain of lights in the sky, which seemed to angle down and impact into the ocean near Shag Harbour.

RCMP officers at the scene and other witnesses saw a light bobbing on the surface, which started drifting out to sea and disappeared.

A large swath of thick yellow foam was witnessed in the water by fishermen and other rescuers who aided in the search for possible survivors.

The Royal Canadian Navy soon launched an underwater search for possible debris, but nothing was found and the object was never identified.