Chamber of Commerce Member

Incorporated in 1965, our beautiful town is the oldest town in the Bay St. George Area. The Town of St. George’s is a community of 1,203 people – located on the southeastern shore of Flat Bay and over 55% of our community are proud to belong to the Mi’kmaq Nation.

A full recap of history can be seen at the beautiful K’Taqmkuk Mi’kmaw Cultural Historic Museum located in the St. George’s Indian Band Building (formerly the old court house).

Our community, originally known as South Side or Little Bay has its origins in the French fishery of the seventeenth century.  The natural harbour attracted fishermen to spend the summer in this area and they’d return to France for the winter months. Permanently settled in the eighteenth century, the community remained a fishing village for nearly 200 years until the advent of the railroad. The town became the distributor of goods for the surrounding area and the Port au Port Peninsula, as supplies were being delivered to the peninsula by the St. George’s Steamship Company.