Tradition has it that in 1775, poet and sea captain Michael mor MacDonald of South Uist, who attended the Glenaladale emigration to PEI, frequently landed on the coast and partially explored it and spent the winter near the Grand Judique River. He encountered Mi'kmaq during his stay. The ice came in before he had a chance to leave and he spent the winter there. His Gaelic song about the event, "O, Is Àlainn an t-Àite" (pronounced: oh, iss ah-lin un t-ah-chuh) "O, Fair is the Place", is thought by many to be the first Scots Gaelic song composed in North America.