Afterward the community was also settled by Dutch United Empire Loyalists from New York and New Jersey in 1785, after the Great Expulsion.
In 1801, the town rescued those who remained from the ship wreck of the Industry, after drifting in lifeboats for 5 days in the Bay of Fundy.
The first Nova Scotian to die in aerial combat in World War II was from Tusket (Jack Elmer Hatfield, No.
The Université Sainte-Anne has a campus located in Tusket as well, in order to serve the Acadian community in surrounding areas.
They harvested seals, sea bird eggs, cod, shellfish, smelts, gaspereau, sturgeon, salmon, eels, tomcod, waterfowl, beaver, otter, rabbits, deer, moose, caribou and bear.