Continuing our photos from Albert in 1945-46. This is a snap looking up the street in Albert just before the leaves came out on the trees

The next 6 days are all photos from Riverside-Albert in 1945-1946. They were taken by a young lady who ended up living in the Netherlands. She died last year at the age of 95 and her daughter was sorting through her things and came across these photos. Her daughter looked up Albert, Canada on the internet, and found the Heritage Museum in St. Albert, Alberta, where she then mailed the photos. The good people at the Heritage Museum in St. Albert, Alberta then were able to find us on the internet and mailed the photos to us at the Albert County Museum. Unfortunately, we don’t know the name of the person who took the pictures.

One hundred and fity-one years ago today, Miss Bray drowned in the Saxby Gale of 1869 while driving in a horse and carriage across The Lake from Surrey to Hillsborough. She was the only Hillsborough parish casualty of the Saxby Gale.

Let’s head to the Hopewell Rocks today, with the photo from 1940.

The leaves are in full swing now so let’s head out to near Portage Vale in this 1938 photo of a stream and hills.

If you look to the right of the photo you can see what is now the Hillsborough Village office. A neat photo of moving Harold Locke’s House from Main Street to Fairview Avenue in 1951. The house burned in 2001.

This is probably the most moved bank in the world. It was moved three times before it finally settled in it’s current location. The old Bank of Nova Scotia building in Riverside-Albert.

Here is another photo of Oulton Hall Being moved in 1981. This photo really shows the size of the building compared with the equipment moving it .

It’s moving week on Photo-A-Day, here is . Oulton Hall being moved on 5 February 1981. It was moved by Ronald Rossiter (Waterside) from the corner of Tingley and King Street to AC Exhibition grounds using three excavators and skids. Once on the ACEx grounds the building was turned around.

Oulton Hall held many concerts including Hank Snow, Kitty Wells. They showed movies in the upstairs and the Girl Guides held their meetings there for many years.

Back to school Monday, with this photo from 1973 of the Hopewell Cape School as a house. This was teh school our 11th Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett attended in the 1880’s. Sadly it burned down a few years ago.

Back to church Sunday, with this 1930’s photo of the Valley Baptist Church in Surrey. I love the old car driving down the road, and you can just make out a team of horses in front of the barn.