Savage Harbour
locality in Prince Edward Island, Canada
Savage Harbour is the name of a Canadian rural community and adjacent bay located on the boundary of Queens County and Kings County, Prince Edward Island. It is located in the township of Lot 38, north of Mount Stewart. It is adjacent to the Crowbush Cove Wharf small craft harbour, formerly known as the Savage Harbour small craft harbour.
In 2022, the chief of nearby Abegweit First Nation began an effort to change the name of the community and bay, due to negative associations of the term "savage" as it relates to indigenous peoples. In 2025, the Government of Prince Edward Island announced that the community and bay would be officially renamed, and the community would be canvassed to aid in determining the new name(s).
History
Indigenous nomads first settled the area c. 1000 BC. The community's name in the Mi'kmaq language is Katewpijk, meaning "eel trap place", which was recorded on several maps using various spellings by Acadian settlers beginning in the 1720s. One of the subsequent Acadian names for the community, Eel Harbour (French: Havre à L'Anguille) also incorporated this meaning. Another Acadian name used for the area was Le Moulin à Vent, which translates in English to "the windmill".
According to the first census of Prince Edward Island (then Isle Saint-Jean) in 1728, an Acadian farming family consisting of 10 people were the first of European descent to colonize what is now Savage Harbour in 1725.
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