Editing Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia (section)

==History==
Named in honour of the British king who was also the duke of [[Brunswick-Lüneburg]], it was established in 1759, when the [[Nova Scotia peninsula]] was divided into five counties. The county became smaller when new counties were created from its boundaries: [[Queens County, Nova Scotia|Queens]] (1762), [[Hants County, Nova Scotia|Hants]] (1781), [[Shelburne County, Nova Scotia|Shelburne]] (1784), and [[Sydney County, Nova Scotia|Sydney]] (1784).

By Chapter 52 of the Statutes of 1863, Lunenburg County was divided into two districts for court sessional purposes – [[Chester Municipal District, Nova Scotia|Chester]] and Lunenburg. That statute provided authority for the appointment of a [[Custos Rotulorum]] and for the establishment of a general sessions of the peace for the District of Chester, with the same powers as if it were a separate county. In 1879, the two districts were incorporated as [[List of municipalities in Nova Scotia#District municipalities|district municipalities]].