Sherbrooke, in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, was named after Sir John C. Sherbrooke (1764-1830), a British army officer who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia from 1811 to 1816, and as Governor-General of Canada for a two year period from 1816 to 1818. Sir John had been one of the generals of the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War in Portugal and Spain, and led the British expedition which captured Castine in Maine in 1814(1).