Only in the middle of the moor, stood a chapel dedicated to St. Anne, founded in 1679 by the Duke of Coislin. It depended Campbon. The town did not exist.
In 1842, the parish of Sainte-Anne was created because the parishioners complained of the great distances to get to Sunday Mass in Campbon. Over the years, the place became animated and built a church, rectory, school ...
In 1876, it was the creation of the town of Sainte-Anne-de-Campbon attached to the canton of Savenay.
On 12 June 1980 the town entered the canton of Pont-Château and took the name of Sainte-Anne-sur-Brivet.
In 1994, the dredging of the river nearby Brivet possible to extract the spectacular pirogues (boats carved from a single tree trunk). In the 1960s, a canoe had been found at My.
