Sherbrooke | |
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Rural Community | |
 The Sherbrooke post office, built in 1930. | |
  Sherbrooke Location within Nova Scotia | |
| Coordinates: 45°8′N 61°59′W / 45.133°N 61.983°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Nova Scotia |
| County | Guysborough County |
| District Municipality | Municipality of the District of St. Mary's |
| Founded | 1805[1] |
| Time zone | UTC−04:00 (AST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−03:00 (ADT) |
| GNBC Code | CBILO[2] |
| Highways |  Trunk 7 |
| Website | www |
| Part of a series about Places in Nova Scotia | |
Sherbrooke is a rural community on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada, in Guysborough County. It is located along the St. Mary's River, a major river in Nova Scotia. The community is named for Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, a colonial era Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Gold was discovered in the area in 1861 and Sherbrooke entered a gold rush which lasted two decades. The economy of the community today revolves around fishing, tourism and lumber. The community is the site of an open-air museum called "Sherbrooke Village" which depicts life in the later 1800s in the wake of the gold rush era.
- ^ "Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia". Province of Nova Scotia. p. 620. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
- ^ "Sherbrooke". Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 24 December 2018.