Albert County, New Brunswick

Albert
Albert
County
	Farm landscape near Alma
	Location within New Brunswick
	Coordinates: 45°49′N 64°51′W / 45.82°N 64.85°W
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
Established	1845
Area
• Land	1,807.88 km2 (698.03 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	29,158
• Density	16.1/km2 (42/sq mi)
• Pop 2011-2016	1.1%
• Dwellings	13,111
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)
Area code	506

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; the shire town is Hopewell Cape. The county was established in 1845 from parts of Westmorland County and Saint John County, and named after Prince Albert.^[2] Since the abolition of county municipal governments in 1967, its best-known use is as a census division.

The mineral albertite was discovered a few miles away in 1849, giving rise to Albert Mines.^[3]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Census Profile, 2016 Census Albert, County, New Brunswick". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
^ Hamilton, William Baillie (1996). Place Names of Atlantic Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 43. ISBN 0-8020-7570-3.
^ Hamilton, William (1978). The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names. Toronto: Macmillan. p. 70. ISBN 0-7715-9754-1.