CHEVERY

What to KNOW

Despite being one thought of as one of the last villages to be permanently settled on the Lower North Shore, Chevery has a long history including archaeological evidence of occupation during the Maritime Archaic period. The village is located along a sandy bay near the mouth of the thundering Netagamiou River. An early French fur-trading and seal-fishing post was established here in the 1730s by Jacques de Lafontaine de Belcour through a concession from France. After the post was abandoned in the 1770s, a salmon and seal fishery was established in 1826 and animated at the mouth of the Netagmiou River by Thomas Collard and his family until 1875. There was no further settlement in the area until 1931. That year, an experimental agricultural farm was established on the eastern bank of the nearby Cross River. With support from the federal government, William “Dosh” Anderson and his family cleared the land, imported livestock, and maintained vegetable gardens. The farm operated until World War II.

In the 1950s, residents of remote Gull Cliff Island, Aylmer Sound and various abandoned settlements requested a permanent mainland community with better acess to services. This resulted in the establishment of Chevery.