Sambro is a rural fishing community on the Chebucto Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality, in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Sésambre became S. Sambre; and the English sailors, who are not greatly devoted to the saints, have called it simply Sambro.

Mi'kmaq: Meseebakun.uk (`the constant mocker`) Three years after the founding of Halifax in 1752, 26 families settled and worked on Sambro Island after Governor Edward Cornwallis saw the need to populate the area with British settlers to prevent a French attack by sea.

[a] On 1 September 1782 the American privateer Wasp sailed to Pennant Point where they were confronted by three men from Sambro who fired on them, killing one of his crew and wounding three others including Captain Thomas Thompson.

In World War I, on 2 July 1918 SS City of Vienna hit the rocks on Sambro Island.

[5] On 5 August 1918 the British tanker Luz Blanca was hit by a torpedo fired by the German U-boat U-156 on her way to Halifax.

All survived In World War II, on 26 March 1941 HMCS Otter caught fire from a wiring issue and abandoned ship 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) south of Sambro Island.