Kegashka

 village, municipality

Kegaska has a population of less than 200 people, mostly anglophone settlers from Anticosti Island. Its name derives from the Innu word quegasca, first recorded on Franquelin's map of 1685.
In 1831, Kegaska was the site of a Hudson's Bay Company trading post, but the actual settlement was formed in 1852 when Acadian settlers came from the Magdalen Islands. They abandoned the place in 1871-1873 to settle at Betchewun (now Betchouane between Havre-Saint-Pierre and Baie-Johan-Beetz) and were replaced by Newfoundland fishermen, almost all of Irish origin. They in turn left around 1887-1888, leaving the place completely deserted by 1890. Yet in 1898, a few families relocated from Perth, Ontario, whose descendants now populate the area. It is currently part of the Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent municipality.