The History And Development of Sherbrooke In Guysborough County, Nova Scotia

Phyllis Blakeley (1969)
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Digitized & Edited by: Adam J. Baker & Kimberly Fraser for Sherbrooke Village Restoration (2000)

Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• French Fort Sainte Marie
• Salmon Fisheries And The Grant Of 1765
• Early Settlement On St. Mary's River
• The Beginnings of the Village of Sherbrooke
• The Township of St. Mary's
• Lumber Trade
• Farming
• Shipbuilding and Communication by Sea
• District of St. Mary's
• New Court House (Still Standing)
• New Jail
• Municipality of St. Mary's
• Schools At Sherbrooke
• Churches
  • St. James' Anglican Church
  • St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church
  • United Church of Canada
• Sherbrooke in the 1860s
• Sherbrooke Gold Mines or Goldenville
• Confederation and the first Dominion Day 1867
• Transportation
• Population Decline and Emigration
• Lumbering in the 20th Century
• Conclusion