 Construction of the wharf coincided with the construction of the European and North American Railway, which chose Pointe-du-Chêne as its eastern terminus.This allowed strong potato, and livestock industries to arise in the community.As yet there was no industry in all of Shediac Bay as strong as the community's lumber industry, but as the forests of coastal Maine and England were close to depletion at this time, the abundance of oak trees in the area was considered a Godsend.