Hopewell Parish, New Brunswick


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

Delineation

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

History

Albert County: established as a Nova Scotia township in 1765 and became part of the province of New Brunswick in 1786: possibly named for Hopewell, Pennsylvania, home of some of the first settlers to the area: may have also been named for the ship that brought a group of settlers from Ireland in 1761: Hopewell Parish included Harvey Parish until 1838.

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 only61094.6%
French only152.3%
Both English and French50.8%
Other languages152.3%

Access Routes

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