Riverside-Albert is a disincorporated village in
Fundy Albert,
New Brunswick
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,
Canada
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.
It resides in the geographic parish of
Hopewell in
Albert County
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.
Riverside-Albert is located on the north of
Shepody River on upland above the
marsh
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. The community of
Harvey Parish is located across the river. It is approximately halfway between two major tourist destinations:
Fundy National Park
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and the
Hopewell Rocks.
Post office called Albert from 1875; Riverside from 1875 to 1932; Riverside from 1932.
The
Trans Canada Trail
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passes through Riverside-Albert.
History
Following the French period, Acadian settlers remained under English rule and continued developing the community of Shepody, which included the Riverside-Albert area. In the aftermath of the
Acadian Expulsion
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in 1755, Nova Scotia Governor Lawrence invited applications for township grants. This begat Hopewell Township of Cumberland County on the location of
Shepody. Hopewell's slow beginning grew pace during the rapid growth of the lumbering and ship building industries along the
Bay
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, and Hopewell's communities benefited from the easy access to it at Hopewell's riversides.
Riverside and Albert both appear as communities on the cadastral land grant map of the area.
Albert was originally called Hopewell Corner but the inhabitants resolved to rename it Albert in 1881 due to there being four communities named Hopewell within 12 miles of each other. In 1898 Albert was the terminus of the Salisbury and Harvey Railway, with a population of 500.
Riverside, originally River Side, was a station on the Salisbury and Hillsborough Railway, with a population of 300 in 1871. The post office was renamed Riverside in 1932.
The local improvement district of Riverside-Albert was incorporated on 29 December 1947. The local improvement district became a village in 1966 under the new Municipalities Act.
On 1 January 2023, the village of Riverside-Albert amalgamated with the villages of
Alma
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Arts and entertainment
* ''Alma'' (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film
* ''Alma'', an upcoming film by Sally Potter
* ''Alma'' (Oswald de Andrade novel), 1922
* ''Alma'' (Le Clézio novel), 2017
* ''Alma'' ( ...
and
Hillsborough and parts of eight
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* Local service district (New Brunswick)
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s to form the new village of
Fundy Albert.
The community's name remains in official use.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Riverside-Albert had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Notable people
Notable residents have included
Abner Reid McClelan and
Roscoe Fillmore.
See also
*
List of communities in New Brunswick
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*
Royal eponyms in Canada
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References
External links
Riverside-Albert website
Communities in Albert County, New Brunswick
Former villages in New Brunswick
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