Place:Albert, New Brunswick, Canada

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Albert County (2016 population 29,158)^[1] is New Brunswick's third youngest county located on the Western side of the Petitcodiac River on the Chignecto Bay in the Bay of Fundy. Prior to the abolition of county government in 1967, the shire town was Hopewell Cape. The county was established in 1845 from parts of Westmorland County and Saint John County, and named after Prince Albert.

The mineral albertite was discovered a few miles away in 1849, giving rise to Albert Mines.

The County of Albert, named for Prince Albert, The Prince Consort and beloved husband of Queen Victoria, is located in the southeastern corner of the Province of New Brunswick, Canada.

It is bounded on the south by Chignecto Bay, on the east by Shepody Bay and by the Petitcodiac River which, as far as the Town of Salisbury, also forms its northern boundary. The northwestern corner of the County is formed by the southern extension of Salisbury Parish of Westmorland County. On the west are the Counties of Kings and Saint John. The County contains an area of some 680 sq. miles consisting of cleared farmland and rolling wooded hills.

On March 27, 1845 Albert county was set off from Westmorland County taking with it the original Parishes of Hillsborough and Hopewell, part of the Parish of Salisbury and the later Parishes of Coverdale and Harvey. By that time initial settlements along the Fundy shore and the Petitcodiac River had reached up the many small rivers and streams in search of homestead land and the abundance of virgin timber. The forming of a new geographic entity was an obvious solution. The Parishes of Elgin and Alma were to be formed later.

Nearby towns/areas include Albert Mines, Demoiselle Creek and Edgett's Landing.

Research Tips

• New Brunswick Provincial Archives. This is the introductory page. The tabs will lead you to more precise material.
• The FamilySearch wiki. This lists the availability of vital statistics indexes for New Brunswick.
• New Brunswick GenWeb. A round-up of a lot of genealogical information at the province, county and parish level. Lists of cemeteries and monumental inscriptions can be found here.
• The Provincial Archives website titled The Placenames of New Brunswick has maps of all of its parishes and descriptions of some communities within them. This site contains "cadastral" maps for each parish illustrating the grantee’s name for land granted by the province. These maps are cumulative, showing all grants regardless of date.
• Microfilm images of all Canadian censuses 1851-1911 are online at Library and Archives Canada, as well as at FamilySearch and Ancestry. The 1921 census appears to be available only at Ancestry.
• The CanGenealogy page for New Brunswick. An overview of available online sources with links written by Dave Obee.
• More possibilities can be found by googling "New Brunswick province family history" and investigating the results.
• The word "rencensement", found in Sources, is French for "census".