Sunbury County, Nova Scotia
Sunbury County was a county in Nova Scotia. 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. Sunbury County's seat and its court of general sessions were established at Campobello Island, in Passamaquoddy Bay.
Campobello was fairly central on the coast under its purview, as Sunbury included what the Province of Massachusetts regarded as the eastern portion of its district of Maine.
In 1784, in part due to the immigration to Nova Scotia of many thousands of Loyalists refugees, Sunbury County, with the newer, mainland portion of Cumberland, became the Colony of New Brunswick. British recognition of U.S. Independence had necessitated the turnover of the western third of Sunbury to the District of Maine, then still part of Massachusetts.
After much redefinition and reduction in subsequent decades, there remains in central New Brunswick a county holding the name Sunbury.
