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Fundy Albert, New Brunswick
Fundy Albert is a village municipality in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of New Brunswick. The jurisdiction was formed through the 2023 New Brunswick local governance reforms which saw the consolidation of local government entities into regions or districts. History Fundy Albert was established on January 1, 2023 by New Brunswick regulation 2022-50, the Local Governments Establishment Regulation of the Local Governance act, through the amalgamation of the village municipalities of Alma, New Brunswick, Alma, Riverside-Albert and Hillsborough, New Brunswick, Hillsborough while at the same time annexing certain mostly adjacent unincorporated areas. Places of note *Fundy Albert is home to the Albert County Chamber of Commerce and the historic New Brunswick Railway Museum and the William Steeves, Hon. William Henry Steeves House Museum. *Grays Island is a cemetery. *Surrey, New Brunswick, Surrey was amalgamated into Fundy Albert. * A monument on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provinces And Territories Of Canada
Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Constitution of Canada, Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Province of Canada (which upon Confederation was divided into Ontario and Quebec)—united to form a federation, becoming a fully Independence, independent country over the next century. Over its history, Canada's international borders have changed several times as it has added territories and provinces, making it the List of countries and dependencies by area, world's second-largest country by area. The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that provinces receive their power and authority from the ''Constitution Act, 1867'' (formerly called the ''British North America Acts, British North America Act, 1867''), whereas territories are federal territories whose governments a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillsborough, New Brunswick
Hillsborough is a former village in Albert County, New Brunswick, Albert County in the provinces of Canada, province of New Brunswick, Canada. It was an incorporated village prior to 2023 but is now part of the much larger incorporated village of Fundy Albert. Hillsborough is on a hill overlooking the Petitcodiac River near the intersection of New Brunswick Route 910, Route 910 and New Brunswick Route 114, Route 114. It is the largest settlement in Hillsborough Parish, New Brunswick, Hillsborough Parish. History Originally established around 1700 as "Blanchard's Village" by Acadian farmers, they lived here for sixty years, building dykes that are still in use. Before the Great Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755, the area was almost 100% French. Now, few Acadians live there, though there are several Acadian settlements on the opposite bank of the Petitcodiac River, such as Pre d'en Haut, New Brunswick. On September 4, 1755, the Battle of Petitcodiac was fought near Hillsborough. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burpee L (1868–1933), Lieutenant Governor of Idaho from 1905 to 1907
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Burpee may refer to: *Burpee (exercise), a full body exercise *Burpee Seeds, a seed company *Hanksville-Burpee Quarry, a paleontological excavation site near Hanksville, Utah *Burpee Museum of Natural History *Burpee and Mills, Ontario, a township It is also a name: * W. Atlee Burpee, founder of Burpee Seeds *Lawrence Johnstone Burpee (1873–1946), Canadian librarian, historian and author *Judson Burpee Black (1842–1924), Canadian politician *Burpee L. Steeves Burpee Laban Steeves (July 7, 1868 – October 23, 1933) was a Republican politician from Idaho. Steeves served as the ninth lieutenant governor of Idaho from 1905 to 1907 during the administration of Governor Frank R. Gooding. External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil McNeil
Neil McNeil (November 23, 1851 – May 25, 1934) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver from 1910 to 1912 and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto from 1912 to 1934. Early life McNeil was born in Hillsborough, Inverness County, Nova Scotia. He attended Propaganda College in Rome. Career In 1879, McNeil was ordained as a priest. In 1880 he was appointed vice-rector of College of St. Francis Xavier in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and had risen to rector by the end of his service in 1891. He was pastor in Arichat and D'Escousse, Nova Scotia before becoming Vicar Apostolic of Western Newfoundland (St. George's) and Titular Bishop of Nilopolis in 1895. In 1904, McNeil was appointed Bishop of St. George's, Newfoundland. From 1910 to 1912, McNeil was Archbishop of Vancouver, British Columbia. After only two years, he became Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, where he served from 1912 to 1934. Shortly after being appointed as Archbishop, NcNeil was charged with completi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William James Lewis
William James Lewis (September 23, 1830 – June 22, 1910) was a physician and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Albert County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1879 to 1896 and Albert in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1904 as an Independent and then Liberal member. He was born in Hillsborough, New Brunswick, the son of John Lewis, who served in the province's assembly and Legislative Council, and Lavinia Taylor. He was educated there and at Sackville, then went on to study medicine at the University of Glasgow. He served as coroner A coroner is a government or judicial official who is empowered to conduct or order an inquest into the manner or cause of death. The official may also investigate or confirm the identity of an unknown person who has been found dead within th ... for Albert County and was also a school trustee. He practised medicine in Hillsborough. He was married twice: to Melissa Steeves in 1877 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh McMonagle
Hugh McMonagle (1817 – October 12, 1889) was an inn-keeper and political figure in New Brunswick, later a province of Canada. He represented King County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1856 to 1857. He was born in Hillsborough, Albert County, the son of Cornelius McMonagle, a native of Ireland, and Anne Scott. McMonagle later settled in Sussex Corner. He was married twice: first to Margaret Roach and then to Mary Roach, her sister. McMonagle raised cows and work horses as well as raising and training pure-bred race horses. He introduced the Morgan horse The Morgan horse is one of the earliest horse breeds developed in the United States. Tracing back to the foundation bloodstock, foundation sire Figure (horse), Figure, later named Justin Morgan after his best-known owner, Morgans served ma ... to New Brunswick. McMonagle's horse ''Livingstone'' defeated George Gilbert's ''Retriever'' in the so-called "Great race of 1847". References {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fathers Of Confederation
The Fathers of Confederation are the 36 people who attended at least one of the Charlottetown Conference, Charlottetown Conference of 1864 (23 attendees), the Quebec Conference, 1864, Quebec Conference of 1864 (33 attendees), and the London Conference of 1866 (16 attendees), preceding Canadian Confederation. Only twelve people attended all three conferences. Table of participation The following table lists the participants in the Charlottetown, Quebec, and London Conferences and their attendance at each stage. Group photographs and paintings Other possible claimants to title Four other individuals have been labelled as Fathers of Confederation. Hewitt Bernard, who was the recording secretary at the Charlottetown Conference, is considered by some to be a Father of Confederation. The leaders most responsible for bringing three specific provinces into Confederation after 1867 are also referred to as Fathers of Confederation. * The provisional government established by Louis Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverside Consolidated
Riverside may refer to: Places Australia * Riverside, Tasmania, a suburb of Launceston, Tasmania Canada * Riverside (electoral district), in the Yukon * Riverside, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Alberta * Riverside, Manitoba, a former rural municipality * Riverside, Middlesex County, Ontario, a community in the municipality of Southwest Middlesex * Rural Municipality of Riverside No. 168, Saskatchewan * Riverside, Ontario, a neighbourhood of Windsor * Riverside, Simcoe County, Ontario, a community in the township of Tay * Riverside, Toronto, a neighbourhood in Riverdale, Toronto, Ontario * Riverside Ward, former name of River Ward in Ottawa, Ontario New Zealand * Riverside, New Zealand, a locality in Ashburton District, near Wheatstone, New Zealand * Riverside, Whangārei, a suburb of Whangārei South Africa * Riverside, Mbombela, a suburb of Mbombela, Mpumalanga United Kingdom * Riverside, Cardiff, an inner-city area and community in South Wales * Riverside (Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillsborough Elementary School
Hillsborough may refer to: Australia *Hillsborough, New South Wales, a suburb of Lake Macquarie Canada *Hillsborough, New Brunswick *Hillsborough Parish, New Brunswick * Hillsborough, Nova Scotia, in Inverness County *Hillsborough (electoral district), a defunct Prince Edward Island federal electoral district * Rural Municipality of Hillsborough No. 132, Saskatchewan Grenada *Hillsborough, Carriacou Ireland * Hillsborough (Parliament of Ireland constituency) New Zealand * Hillsborough, Auckland * Hillsborough, Christchurch, a suburb United Kingdom *Hillsborough, County Down, Northern Ireland ** Hillsborough, County Down (civil parish) **Hillsborough Castle, the State residence in Northern Ireland *Hillsborough, Devon, England *Hillsborough, Sheffield, a suburb **Sheffield Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency) former parliamentary constituency **Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (UK Parliament constituency) ** Hillsborough (ward), a ward electing 3 members to Sheff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caledonia Regional High School
Caledonia Regional High School is a Canadian secondary school in Hillsborough, New Brunswick. It is a “Centre of Academic Excellence” according to the local news media and the least populated high school in all of Anglophone East School District. Caledonia Regional has approximately 270 students enrolled in grades 6 through 12. The school also serves the communities Riverside-Albert and Alma in addition to the communities from Stoney Creek to Fundy National Park. The school offers Late French Immersion. See also * List of schools in New Brunswick * Anglophone South School District The Anglophone South School District (ASD-S) is a public English Canadian, Anglophone school district in the Canadian province of New Brunswick that serves the southern part of the province, covering English-language public schools within the Sai ... References External linksOfficial School Website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Petitcodiac
The Battle of Petitcodiac was an engagement which occurred during the Bay of Fundy campaign of the French and Indian War. The battle was fought between the British colonial forces from Massachusetts and Acadian militiamen led by French officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot on September 4, 1755. It took place at the Acadian village of Village-des-Blanchard on the Petitcodiac River. Background After the capture of Fort Beauséjour in June 1755 during the French and Indian War, the British initiated a campaign to deport the Acadians, French colonizers in Acadia. Using Fort Cumberland as a base, British forces made forays into the surrounding countryside, rounding up Acadians to deport and destroying their colonial settlements. Some of the Acadians surrendered, while others fled from the coastal communities into the interior, where they joined with local Miꞌkmaq and Maliseet forces and resisted the deportation efforts. Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrey, New Brunswick
Hillsborough is a former village in Albert County in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. It was an incorporated village prior to 2023 but is now part of the much larger incorporated village of Fundy Albert. Hillsborough is on a hill overlooking the Petitcodiac River near the intersection of Route 910 and Route 114. It is the largest settlement in Hillsborough Parish. History Originally established around 1700 as "Blanchard's Village" by Acadian farmers, they lived here for sixty years, building dykes that are still in use. Before the Great Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755, the area was almost 100% French. Now, few Acadians live there, though there are several Acadian settlements on the opposite bank of the Petitcodiac River, such as Pre d'en Haut, New Brunswick. On September 4, 1755, the Battle of Petitcodiac was fought near Hillsborough. After the capture of Fort Beausejour during the Seven Years' War, in an attempt to gain control over the region, the British sent a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
