Called after the Queen, Victoria County was established by statute in 1851. Cape Breton County was divided into two counties in that year, with Victoria County being cut off from it. This was done by Statute 14 Victoria IV. In 1852, by Chapter 17 of the Statutes of that year, the second section of Act 14, Vic. IV was repealed and a revised description substituted. In 1894, a survey of the boundary between Cape Breton County and Victoria County for the area at or near Aconi or Fifes Brook on Boularderie Island was done pursuant to Chapter 14 of the Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1884, "Of Counties, Districts and Townships, and Their Officers". On the plan, the county line appears to follow Aconi Brook (beginning at its mouth) as far as its intersection with the old road to Big Bras D'or. Then line then follows the west side of the aforementioned old road in a northerly direction to meet the rear line of the lots fronting on Big Bras D'Or; then along a course of south 70 degrees west (magnetic 1904) to meet the soutwest corner of the Reverend James Fraser's lot: then south 17 degrees east to the Little Bras D;Or (Barra Strait). This would appear to conform very closely with the description given in Chapter 17, Statutes of Nova Scotia 1852.