Mahone Bay: History of the Waters That Hold Oak Island

Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, holds Oak Island on its southern shore. The Mi'kmaq called the bay Sebetre and Mush-a-Mush. The French administered it for sixty-five years as Mirligueche, surveying it for naval oak under Louis XIV in 1684 and granting it as a seigneury to Captain Pierre Denys de Bonnaventure in 1702. The name Mahone Bay first appears on a 1736 British chart by Captain Thomas Durell.

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