The first Catholics to settle in the Yarmouth area, were a group of French inhabitants of Annapolis Royal (Port Royal), who settled at Chebogue, around 1739. They were attracted by the prospects of good fishing.There was also a settlement of Acadians at Chegoggin, around the same time, but it, like the one at Chebogue, was terminated by the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. When writing his History of the County of Yarmouth, in 1876, J.R. Campbell states that there still could be seen remnants of the foundations at both locations. more... See more text