Arriving in this place was not exactly a first experience for these pioneering families. Leaving Beaubassin in a futile attempt to seek out a safe haven during the Deportation of 1755, these same ancestors had travelled with other Acadian families toward northern New Brunswick and along the way found temporary shelter in this place which had become a refugee center. In fact, Paul H?bert and his family had spent some time here between 1755-1756.
What irony that a dozen years later these same families would become the pioneers of Cocagne!