SACKVILLE

town, Westmorland county, southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. It lies near the Nova Scotia border, 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Moncton. Three French villages occupied the site about 1720, but these were destroyed with the capture of nearby Fort Beausjour (Fort Cumberland) and the expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. Resettled in 1761 by New England immigrants, the community was named after George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, commander of the British forces. It developed as a marketing centre for the fertile farmlands reclaimed from the surrounding Tantramar Marshes. There has been light-industrial development, and the shortwave overseas transmitter of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is near the town. Sackville is the site of Mount Allison University. Inc. 1903. Pop. (1991) 5,494.