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Sackville town (1991 pop. 5,494), SE N.B., Canada, near the head of Chignecto Bay, an arm of the Bay of Fundy. The early French Acadian settlers diked and reclaimed the nearby Tantramar marshes, creating fertile agricultural land. The first Baptist church in Canada was established there in the 1770s. Sackville is the seat of Mt. Allison Univ.

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Sackville, New Brunswick/Canada Resettled on the site of three abandoned French villages in 1761, it was named after George Sackville Germain (1716–85), 1st Viscount Sackville, British secretary of state for the colonies (1779–82).

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