page_title: Salmon River, Digby County
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Salmon River, Digby County / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Post office in Salmon River, Digby County, NS
context_page_description: Salmon River is a small rural community in Digby County, located on the southwest coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.
context_section_description: Jacques Deveau and his wife Marie-Madeleine Robichaud were the first Acadian settlers of the community, arriving in the spring of 1786. They returned to the province after the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. They were granted 200 acres in Salmon River through a series of land petitions and swaps with a Loyalist family.
caption: Salmon River post office
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