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==History== Established August 17, 1759, by Order in Council, Annapolis County took its name from the town of [[Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia|Annapolis Royal]] which had been named in honour of [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]]. The town was the successor to the French settlement of [[Port-Royal (Acadia)|Port Royal]], the chief [[Acadian]] settlement in the area. The Acadians had been forcibly removed by British government officials in the 1755 [[Great Expulsion|Grand Dérangement]]. In 1817 the population of the county was 9,817, and that had grown to 14,661 by 1827. At that time, the county was divided into six [[Township (Canada)#Atlantic Canada|townships]]: Annapolis, Granville, Wilmot, Clements, Digby and Clare.<ref name="jb">{{cite book|last1=Bouchette|first1=Joseph|author-link1=Joseph Bouchette|title=The British Dominions in North America; or a Topographical and statistical description of the provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward, and Cape Breton.|date=1832|publisher=Longman & Company|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/britishdominions02bouc/page/38 38]|url=https://archive.org/details/britishdominions02bouc|quote=Wilmot Township annapolis nova scotia.|access-date=15 February 2018}}</ref> By 1833, a number of reasons had been advanced for making two counties out of Annapolis County. Two petitions were presented to the House of Assembly in that year requesting that the county be divided. However, it was not until 1837 that Annapolis County was divided into two distinct and separate counties - Annapolis and [[Digby County, Nova Scotia|Digby]].
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