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Albert County
The Beautiful Bay of Fundy
A southeastern New Brunswick county on Chignecto Bay, an inlet of the Bay of Fundy. The first settlers in the area were Acadians, the descendants of the French settlers who reached Nova Scotia in 1604. Though the Acadiens fiercely defended their neutrality in the wars between Britain and France, in 1755 the British landed in modern-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and came to view the French-speaking Acadiens as a potential fifth column. In an event the Acadiens have known ever since as Le Grand Dérangement, the British burned all the Acadien settlements, and rounded up the Acadiens and expelled them from the territory. In the centuries that followed new settlers came to Albert County, and during Canada's Industrial Revolution they established an important shipbuilding industry. In the 20th and 21st Century the region has remained largely rural, with an economy that has shifted to tourism, as people travel from far and wide to see the breathtaking Hopewell Rocks, and see the iconic tides of the Bay of Fundy.
This project is a partnership with Fundy Tourism.
Present-day Albert County occupies part of Siknikt, one of the seven districts of Mi’kma’ki, the homeland and territory of the Mi’kmaq. The Mi’kmaq, along with the Wolastoqiyik and the Peskotomuhkati peoples, signed the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” with the British Crown beginning in 1726. It is important to remember that these treaties recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik title to the land and established the terms of an ongoing relationship between nations.