 At the time the first Loyalist settlers arrived in the area of the present-day village of Cape North, the area was known as Uktutuncok, meaning "Highest Mountain" in Miꞌkmaq.Moose were quite plentiful in the area in the 1800s, and a wholesale slaughter of these moose was carried out in the area around present-day Cape North.So barbaric were these slaughters that the government of the day was forced to step in and put a stop to the "wanton destruction".