The district was created in the British North America Act, 1867.

It consisted of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.

This riding was set by the British North America Act, 1867 to consist of Annapolis County.

This riding was dissolved into Digby and Annapolis in the 1914 electoral redistribution.

The county was legally defined in 1837 as such: ...to comprehend and comprise all that part of the present County of Annapolis to the Eastward of a line to pass through the centre of the Gut of Annapolis and from a line to be drawn from the same to the centre of Bear River, and from thence to be continued southwardly, following the course of the same River, to the head of the tide, and thence following a line South twenty four degrees East to the boundary of Queen's County, and containing the Townships of Annapolis, Granville and Wilmot, and so much of the Township of Clements as lies to the Eastward of Bear River, and of the aforesaid line; and also, all other parts of the County of Annapolis to the Eastward of the same line, and not included in any Township.