History:

During the deportation from Grand-Pré and Port Royal, Beaubassin, and Memramcook and other locations, some of the Acadians, hid in the woods for a number of months to escape being exiled while some others were forced to defend the fort at Beauséjour. Most of these Acadians were subsequently taken prisoner at Fort Beauséjour and later transferred to Halifax. After the Treaty of Paris, 1763, Acadians were free to establish elsewhere in the province. A number of these families subsequently settled in the Chezzetcook area. Some Acadian families from Isle Royal previously re-established at Chezzetcook around 1760-1761. In 1774 or 1775 a group of Acadians from Isle Madame also established temporarily at Chezzetcook. Four other families who arrived at Chezzetcook have different origins as indicated below, in brackets, after their family names. Loyalist settlers joined them shortly after. Today there are still a number of Acadian families in Chezzetcook, however several of the original Acadian families were displaced and they moved to Larry's River, Charlos Cove and surrounding area of Tor Bay, N.S.

Early family names (prior to 1800) include; Bellefontaine, Bonin, Bonnevie, Boudrot, Breau (from Île de Miquelon), Clergé (from Port-Toulouse), Faucher (French Canadian from Québec), Julien (directly from France), Lavandier, LaPierre, Mayet, Murphy, Petitpas, Roma, Wolfe (Ref. Ronald Labelle's "Acadian Life in Chezzetcook")