Hillsborough Parish, New Brunswick


Hillsborough is a civil parish in Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between the village of Hillsborough and the local service district of the parish of Hillsborough.

Delineation

Hillsborough Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as being bounded:

History

Albert County was established as a Nova Scotian township in 1765, and became part of New Brunswick as the Parish of Hillsborough in 1786: named for Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough and the lord commissioner of trade and plantations: Hillsborough Parish included Coverdale Parish until 1828
Located on west 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 .
This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish

Population

Language

Mother tongue
LanguagePopulationPct
English only1,25095.4%
French only403.1%
Both English and French50.4%
Other languages151.1%

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits: