Exiting a covered bridge on a gravel road leading down a hill to a farmhouse and barn in field in Portage Vale, c.1940.

Snider’s Garage, Hillsborough, NB taken in the early 1970’s. The man is Terry Fenton. Sadly the original building was destroyed by fire in the spring of 1981.

Maple Street in Riverside in 1908, now Riverside-Albert, NB

An unidentified group displaying the new fruit tree sprayer in Hopewell Hill 1910. Did you know that in the 1890’s Albert County was the world’s largest exporter of Apple trees?

The entrance to an 'Albertite' mine in Albert Mines, 1860
Albert Mines, New Brunswick, Canada

Sunday means a trip to the Hopewell Rocks in this colourized postcard circa 1900

The Victory Loans Gun in December 1959, Hopewell Cape, NB. The original Bennett monument is in the the background. It is a cairn with the same plaque that sits at Bennett’s grave-site in Mickleham, England.

Winter Scene Near Hillsborough, New Brunswick. This was a post card. The stamp on the postcard was cancelled in 1924.

Oil well #7, at the oil fields in Weldon. 1910. The Stoney Creek oil fields started producing crude oil and gas in 1909. In 1923, the production of crude oil in Albert County was 308,984 gallons, and 619,673 thousand feet of gas. By 1925, sixty-six wells had been bored in the Stoney Creek oil fields.

This photo is of the Meredith White under construction in Alma in 1918. The Meredith and its sister ship the Vincent (seen behind the Meredith) were built for C.T. White & Son Ltd. The ‘White Ships’ were skippered by Captain Trites, Captain Brown, and Captain Merriam. After they were launched they were loaded at Apple River, N.S. and sailed to South Africa.

Hillsborough Pound Hill, early 1940’s with Lambert Lake in the foreground. If you’re driving by today, our new sign is right where the second telephone pole is, going up the hill on the left.

Construction of railroad bridge in 1880 for the Salisbury - Albert Railway to cross over the Shepody River from Albert to Harvey. The Hon. Gaius Turner wanted to build an extension of the railway from Albert to Harvey because of the need to bring supplies to his shipyard in Harvey. In 1880 he received a $9,000 grant from the government to begin construction of the three mile extension from Albert to Harvey.