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Encyclopedia > Albert County, New Brunswick

Albert County (2001 population 26,749) is located in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada on the Chignecto Bay of the Bay of Fundy. Prior to the abolishment of county government in 1967, the county seat was Hopewell Cape. Image File history File links Public domain map of New Brunswick created by User:Plasma east with data courtesy of Geogratis, modified to show counties. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope was restored) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson Premier Bernard Lord (PC) Area 72 908 km² (11th) • Land 71 450 km² • Water 1 458 km² (2. ... Chignecto Bay is an inlet of the Bay of Fundy located between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and separated from the waters of the Northumberland Strait by the Isthmus of Chignecto. ... The Bay of Fundy is a bay located on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A county seat is an administrative centre for a county. ...

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Communities

Towns in Albert County, with 2001 populations given:


Villages in Albert County, with 2001 populations given Riverview Town Hall, Winter 2003 Riverview is a town in south-eastern New Brunswick, Canada located on the south side of the Petitcodiac River, opposite the much larger city of Moncton. ...


Parishes Hillsborough is a village in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. ...

  • Alma
  • Coverdale
  • Elgin
  • Harvey
  • Hillsborough
  • Hopewell


Communities

The Community of Demoiselle Creek is a civil division of Albert County. ... Albert Mines is a community that is one of the civil divisions of Hillsborough Parish. ...

Highways

Highways that run through Albert are as follows:
Secondary Highways: #112, #114
Tertiary Highways: #895, #905, #910, #915


Protected Areas

Fundy National Park
Hopewell Rocks
McManus Hill Provincial Conservation Area
Shepody National Wildlife Area
Fundy National Park is located on the Bay of Fundy near the village of Alma, New Brunswick. ...


Attractions

Campgrounds/Information centres in Fundy National Park:

  • Chignecto North
  • Headquarters
  • Point Wolfe
  • Visitors Centre

also:

Unique geological formation found at Hopewell Rocks. ... Cape Enrage lighthouse Cape Enrage is the name given to the southern tip of Barn Marsh Island, an island located in Albert County, New Brunswick, roughly half way between Riverside-Albert and Fundy National Park on Rte. ...

Demographics

(Statistics Canada, 2001)
Population: 26,749
Population change (1996-2001): 1.0
Dwellings: 10,705
Area (sq. km): 1,806.12
Density (per sq. km.): 14.8
National rank in terms of population: 186
Provincial rank in terms of population: 12


Surrounding Counties


Saint John County (2001 population 76,407) is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada. ... Kings County (2001 population 64,208) is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada. ... Westmorland County (2001 population 124,688) is located in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. ...

New Brunswick Flag of New Brunswick
Cities: Bathurst | Bouctouche | Campbellton | Dieppe | Edmundston | Fredericton | Miramichi | Moncton | Saint John
Notable towns: Beresford | Caraquet | Dalhousie | Grand Falls | Hampton | Oromocto | Quispamsis | Riverview | Rothesay | Sackville | Shediac | Shippagan | St. Stephen | Sussex | Tracadie | Woodstock
Counties: Albert | Carleton | Charlotte | Gloucester | Kent | Kings | Madawaska | Northumberland | Queens | Restigouche | Saint John | Sunbury | Victoria | Westmorland | York

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It was first truly studied by New Brunswick geologist Abraham Gesner, who had heard stories of rocks that burned in the area.
The occurrence at Albert Mines existed as a series of discordant veins which were hosted in the core of an anticlinal closure of a fold.
The geologists of the 1800's were at a loss as to describe how this coal apparently came to lie discordant to the strata of the area, as they did not yet understand the nature of the oil shale source rock, nor the fact that the albertite was essentially solidified asphaltum.
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