{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Riverside-Albert |nickname = |settlement_type = |motto = |image_skyline = RiversideAlbertStation 2011.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption = Former train station in Riverside-Albert |image_seal = |image_flag = |image_map = |pushpin_map = New Brunswick |pushpin_label_position = left |pushpin_map_caption = Location of Riverside-Albert, New Brunswick |pushpin_mapsize = 250 |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Canada |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = New Brunswick |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Albert County |subdivision_type3 = Parish |subdivision_name3 = Hopewell Parish |subdivision_type4 = Municipality |subdivision_name4 = Fundy Albert |government_type = Village council | established_title = Incorporated | established_date = 1966 | extinct_title = Amalgamated | extinct_date = 2023 | demographics_type1 = Electoral districts | demographics1_title1 = Federal | demographics1_info1 = Fundy Royal | demographics1_title2 = Provincial | demographics1_info2 = Albert |leader_title = |leader_name = |leader_title1 = |leader_name1 = |leader_title2 = |leader_name2 = |leader_title3 = |leader_name3 = |area_magnitude = |area_footnotes = <ref name=census2021/> |area_total_km2 = |area_total_sq_mi = |area_land_km2 = 3.39 |area_land_sq_mi = |area_water_km2 = |area_water_sq_mi = |population_as_of = 2021 |population_footnotes = <ref name=census2021>{{cite web |title=Census Profile of Riverside-Albert, Village (VL) |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Riverside%2DAlbert&DGUIDlist=2021A00051306003&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1&HEADERlist=0 |website=Statistics Canada |access-date=21 January 2023 |date=6 December 2022}}</ref> |population_total = 348 |population_density_km2 = 102.8 |population_blank1_title = Change <small>(2016–21)</small> |population_blank1 = {{decrease}} 0.6% |blank_name = Dwellings |blank_info = |elevation_m = |elevation_ft = |timezone = Atlantic (AST) |utc_offset = -4 |timezone_DST = Atlantic (ADT) |utc_offset_DST = -3 |coordinates = {{coord|45|45|5.1|N|64|43|3.6|W|region:CA-NB_type:isle|display=inline,title}} |website = http://www.riverside-albert.ca |postal_code_type = Canadian Postal code |postal_code = E4H |area_codes = 506, 428 |blank2_name = Telephone Exchange |blank2_info = 882 |blank3_name = Highway |blank3_info = {{jct|state=NB|NB|114}} <br> {{jct|state=NB|NB|915}} |footnotes = }}
'''Riverside-Albert''' is a disincorporated village in Fundy Albert, New Brunswick, Canada.<ref name="laws.gnb.ca">{{cite web |title=Local Governments Establishment Regulation – Local Governance Act |url=https://laws.gnb.ca/en/showfulldoc/cr/2022-50 |website=Government of New Brunswick |access-date=21 January 2023 |date=12 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="GovRefMapRSC7">{{cite web |title=RSC 7 Southeast Regional Service Commission |url=https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/corporate/promo/local-governance/maps/RSC7.html |website=Government of New Brunswick |access-date=21 January 2023}}</ref> It resides in the geographic parish of Hopewell in Albert County.
Riverside-Albert is located on the north of Shepody River on upland above the marsh. The community of Harvey Parish is located across the river. It is approximately halfway between two major tourist destinations: Fundy National Park and the Hopewell Rocks.
Post office called Albert from 1875; Riverside from 1875 to 1932; Riverside from 1932.
The Trans Canada Trail passes through Riverside-Albert.<ref>[http://www.sentiernbtrail.com/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&sobi2Id=14&Itemid=&lang=en Sentier NB Trails]</ref>
==History== {{See also|History of New Brunswick|List of historic places in Albert County, New Brunswick}} 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 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, 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=No. 143 |url=https://archives.gnb.ca/App_Handlers/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?filename=/DigitizedDocuments/Communities/Maps/Cadastral/_Oversize/GRPA143.jpg |website=Provincial Archives of New Brunswick |access-date=1 April 2023}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Albert |url=https://archives.gnb.ca/exhibits/communities/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&community=26 |website=Provincial Archives of New Brunswick |access-date=1 April 2023}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Riverside-Albert |url=https://archives.gnb.ca/exhibits/communities/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&community=3337 |website=Provincial Archives of New Brunswick |access-date=1 April 2023}}</ref>
The local improvement district of Riverside-Albert was incorporated on 29 December 1947.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Local Improvement Districts|journal=The Royal Gazette |date=4 February 1948 |volume=106 |pages=48–49}}</ref> The local improvement district became a village in 1966 under the new Municipalities Act.<ref>Municipalities Act of 1966, Second Schedule, p. 151.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Hamilton|first=William|title=The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names|publisher=Macmillan|year=1978|isbn=0-7715-9754-1|location=Toronto|pages=84}}</ref>
On 1 January 2023, the village of Riverside-Albert amalgamated with the villages of Alma and Hillsborough and parts of eight local service districts to form the new village of Fundy Albert.<ref name="laws.gnb.ca"/><ref name="GovRefMapRSC7"/> The community's name remains in official use.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Proposed entity names reflect strong ties to nature and history |url=https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2022.05.0267.html |location=Irishtown, New Brunswick |publisher=Government of New Brunswick |date=25 May 2022 |access-date=21 January 2023}}</ref>
== Demographics == In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Riverside-Albert had a population of {{val|348|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|142|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|154|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:348-350}}|350|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|350|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|3.39|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|348|3.39|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=census2021>{{cite web |title=Census Profile of Riverside-Albert, Village (VL) |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Riverside%2DAlbert&DGUIDlist=2021A00051306003&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1&HEADERlist=0 |website=Statistics Canada |access-date=21 January 2023 |date=6 December 2022}}</ref>
==Notable people== {{Main|List of people from Albert County, New Brunswick}}
Notable residents have included Abner Reid McClelan and Roscoe Fillmore.
==See also== * List of communities in New Brunswick * Royal eponyms in Canada
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.riverside-albert.ca Riverside-Albert website]
{{Geographic location | Centre = Riverside-Albert | North = Caledonia Mountain | Northeast = Chester | East = Hopewell Hill, Shepody | Southeast = Harvey Bank, Mary's Point, Grindstone Island | South = Harvey, Midway, Derry Corner | Southwest = Beaverbrook, Germantown | West = New Ireland | Northwest = Crooked Creek, Lumsden }}
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Category:Communities in Albert County, New Brunswick Category:Former villages in New Brunswick
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