Country Canada County Albert County Time zone AST (UTC-4) | Province New Brunswick Established 1786 | |
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Hillsborough is a Canadian parish in Albert County, New Brunswick.
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Delineation
Hillsborough Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as being bounded:
South and west by the south line of lot numbered seventeen, granted to William Carlisle and its prolongation westerly to the distance of twelve miles from The Petitcodiac River; thence by a line running north twenty degrees west by the magnet of the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five to Coverdale Parish; north by Coverdale Parish; and east by the Petitcodiac River.History
Albert County: established as a Nova Scotian township in 1765 and became part of New Brunswick as the Parish of Hillsborough (Westmorland County) in 1786: named for Wills Hill (1718-1793), Earl of Hillsborough and the lord commissioner of trade and plantations: Hillsborough Parish included Coverdale Parish until 1828
Located on W side of the Petitcodiac River, 2.26 km NW of Surrey: Hillsborough Parish, Albert County: formerly called German Village for Henry Steeves and a group of German settlers who arrived in 1765 from Pennsylvania: renamed with the creation of the post office: PO Hillsborough from 1840: in 1866 Hillsborough was a community with approximately 167 families: Richard E. Steeves was postmaster and David Wallace was a mill owner: the Albert Mining Company was located nearby: in 1871 Hillsborough had a population of 900: in 1898 Hillsborough was a seaport, a port of entry and a settlement on the Salisbury and Hillsborough Railway with 1 post office, 8 stores, 2 hotels, 1 tannery, 1 carriage factory, nearby gypsum mines and a population of 700: Hillsborough was incorporated as a village in 1966
Communities
Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold).
Bodies of water & Islands
This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits: