Early Portugue named the community, the bay and the cape all in
honour of Portugal's patron saint; St. Mary.
French fishermen used the area as a base in the
1500s for fishing and continued this use until
1713. Afterwards English merchants arrived with
Irish fishing servants and permanent settlement
soon followed.
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