Sunbury County was a county in

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Engl ...

. The county ceased to exist when the province of New Brunswick was created in 1784. The county was created in 1765, alongside a formal enlargement of Cumberland County north and westward (taking in present-day Westmoreland and Albert Counties, New Brunswick). Sunbury County's seat and its court of general sessions were established at

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, in

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.William B. Hamilton, 'Place Names of Atlantic Canada,' University of Toronto Press, 1996 Campobello was fairly central on the coast under its purview, as Sunbury included what the Province of

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regarded as the eastern portion of its district of

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. (In practice, neither Boston nor Halifax were interested in expending energy or money to administer the area so the geographic overlap was permitted to exist.) In 1784, in part due to the

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to Nova Scotia of many thousands of

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, Sunbury County, with the newer, mainland portion of Cumberland, became the Colony of

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. British recognition of U.S.

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had necessitated the turnover of the western third of Sunbury to the District of

, then still part of

. After much redefinition and reduction in subsequent decades, there remains in central New Brunswick a county holding the name Sunbury.

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Photographs of Historic Monuments, Sunbury County, Nova Scotia

Sunbury County Sunbury County (2016 population 27,644) is located in central New Brunswick, Canada. A large military base (CFB Gagetown) is located in the western part of the county south of the town of Oromocto. The county also hosts forestry and mixed farm ...

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