Seacow Pond is 6.3 kms from North Cape and 7.5 kms to Tignish.
How did Seacow Pond get it's name? The story goes like this...
In Warburton's voluminous book entitled Past and Present of Prince Edward Island, the author states that when the founders of Tignish arrived by boat they used the latter as their first habitation by turning their boats over and using them as roofs. He specifically mentions Grégoire Bernard, one of the founders, as having done this, but one can easily presume that all of them did likewise. They later built huts presumably at "The Green". It is said that they shot many wolves and fowl of all kinds. In addition, they drove a number of walruses a distance of two miles into an inland pond (Sea Cow Pond, no doubt) where they confined them, using the one-inch thick hides for moccasins and the like. The story has been told that the skeletal remains of walruses or sea cows have been found in woods at the back of the pond at Sea Cow Pond, which gives its name to that area. There exists a record of a certain Poirier who herded sea cows from the sea into the pond to be slaughtered.
